Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was arriving in Taiwan Saturday — late Friday Texas time — to begin a weeklong trip to three East Asian countries to promote the Lone Star State as the ideal place to do business. Accompanied by First Lady Cecilia Abbott, Secretary of State Jane Nelson and a delegation of business leaders, Abbott will visit Taiwan, South Korea and Japan to meet political and business leaders from a part of the world that has become increasingly important to the state economy.
San Antonio development groups look for ways to ride city’s first European nonstop to more business “Opening that office will be very important,” said Dr. Charles Ku, a retired dentist from Flower Mound who moved to Texas from Taiwan in 1967 to attend Baylor University. “We will have quite a few more companies move to North Texas, and then you’ll benefit with job creation.” Texas businesses and Taiwan-based companies in Texas are taking advantage of the demand to produce semiconductors.
Top Texas Republicans, Biden administration look to grow the state’s semiconductor industry Abbott’s visit comes as tensions continue between China and Taiwan. Taiwan has been independently governed since 1949, but China views the island as part of its territory and hasn’t ruled out the use of force to unify the nations. “We are all concerned about the situation in China and Taiwan,” Ku said. “We have relatives living in Taiwan, and we are concerned.
Booming Port of Laredo a linchpin in global trade, and San Antonio's 'right in the heart of it' “You see Kia, Honda and all of these guys in Georgia and Alabama,” he said. “At some point it would be nice to see if we can get another tier of Korean companies to come to Dallas.” Abbott will end his trip in Japan, where he’ll make stops in Nagoya and Tokyo, board a bullet train and meet with business and political leaders.