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>> I'm really excited about Taiwan.

There're several factors.

One is with only a population of 23 million people,

Taiwan had last year a 10.8 percent GDP growth rate

and our US exports to Taiwan increased

by 43 percent last year.

Taiwan is a thriving democracy so there's a--

and there's a rule of law.

The economy is very good.

US exports are thriving.

There's low unemployment and also an appreciating NT-dollar

which makes US products very attractive.

So there's quite potential in the Taiwan Market.

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>> We're very excited about Taiwan

because you have many SME's exporting to China directly

for the first time, maybe they don't have quite the experience

to understand the culture,

to understand how business works in China.

But I think Taiwan can be very important and not only selling

to Taiwan directly with a population

with growing affluence.

But also, once the distributors established in Taiwan

and they have a representative,

that Taiwan distributor Asian can then take their product

or service to the mainland.

We see more and more that Taiwan representatives are going

to China.

In fact, there are 1 million Taiwan nationals living

and working in China.

It's a tremendous cross straits exchange in the economic

and commercial sense that is going on

and that is very exciting

and the Taiwan representative can really increase your sales

going from the Taiwan market and then expanding into China.

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>> And other areas where there's big opportunity is

in the consumer area

where Taiwan's affluence is growing more and more.

They're really interested in buying and the demand is great

for buying luxury products, brand named items,

things whenever it's beauty products or it might be,

you know, even handbags or things that indicates status

and prestige have great potential.

Moving away from consumer products,

the area in green technology, environmental remediation,

all those areas are-- have very high prospects.

The US is the number 1 destination for Taiwan students

and we're very proud of that and we wanna continue

that tradition and that trend.

We think it's important not only for the commercial value

of generating revenue for US educational institutes,

colleges, universities, even secondary schools,

private secondary schools,

but also because it creates those all important ties

between the US and Taiwan

that will last the entire lifetime of that student.

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