Taiwan will send Stan Shih, founder of computer giant Acer, to the Apec leaders’ summit in Shenzhen next week and has urged Beijing to ensure its delegation is treated with “dignity”. Taiwan has been a member economy of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum under the name “Chinese Taipei” since 1991. But the self-ruled island’s leaders have traditionally not attended the summit due to political sensitivities and objections from Beijing. Instead, Taipei is usually represented by a business…

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