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How has the Taiwan–Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) trade evolved without having official diplomatic relations? Using several international commodity classification systems and trade pattern indices, we argue that despite political constraints, Taiwan–ASEAN trade has rapidly expanded with a significant concentration on manufacturing and intermediate goods, embodied with high-technological content. Also, by employing the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) database on trade in value added (TiVA), we assess that Taiwan and ASEAN have become important partners in terms of trade in value addition. Nevertheless, Taiwan is seemingly lagging behind Northeast Asian economies in strengthening linkages with ASEAN over regional production networks and TiVA. This possibly results from the absence of a bilateral preferential trade agreement between Taiwan and ASEAN so far. Given the low possibility of reaching such an agreement in the near future, it is suggested that Taiwan and ASEAN should employ dynamic approaches to reap greater bilateral trade expansion and other economic benefits.

The emerging Indo-Pacific regional architecture is now considered to be a key factor in the fluctuations of world geopolitics and the main site of many power competitions. With its strategic, economic and commercial importance, the region has become the world's hotbed of international confrontation and conflicts in the 21st century. Following a discussion of certain nations' perspectives and responses to the free and open Indo-Pacific strategy, the article examines future cooperation tendencies in the free and open Indo-Pacific strategy, as well as evaluations of the plan's impact on the region and the globe. The paper employs qualitative analysis methods, specifically international relations research methods, historical and logical methods, as well as comparative methods by surveying secondary data and academic literature to assess the strategic calculations and responses of the US, China, and India towards the Indo-Pacific region. The article comes to the conclusion that, with more and more active participation in the Indo-Pacific regional architecture, regional countries and organizations are enhancing their position, creating a balance in international relations in the region. The shaping of the structure of the Indo-Pacific region, as well as the tendency of competition among countries promises to create a new area of power competition, along with new institutions are being formed.