申論 1Please create a new headline and rewrite the following news into a shortnews paragraph of five sentences by your own words.（100 words in total）（30 分）TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- A small township in western Taiwan has suddenlyfound itself flooded with an order for 600 million socks after U.S. PresidentTrump announced that he was raising tariffs on a broad spectrum ofconsumer products from China earlier this month.On May 14, Trump announced that he would raise tariffs on US$200 billionworth of goods made in China from 10 percent to 25 percent. The list ofitems covered by the tariffs included everything from agricultural andlivestock products. Major shoe brands which sell to the U.S. market such asNike and Adidas issued an open letter to Trump warning that increased costswould be passed on to consumers because 70 percent of shoes imported intothe U.S. come from China.Behind the scenes, however, bills of lading have started to flood into othercountries, including Taiwan. Just a week after Trump announced the newtariffs, an order was placed for 300 million pairs of socks for manufacturers inthe tiny township of Shetou in Changhua County, reported CommonWealthMagazine.The township of Shetou, with a population of only 40,000, is so well knownfor its sock factories that a local saying goes, “There are three things inabundance in Shetou: guavas, socks, and chairmen.” In its heyday, thetownship churned out tens of billions of Taiwan dollars worth of socks.However, in recent years, a free trade agreement between the U.S. and SouthKorea and competition from China started to squeeze out local manufacturers.Fortunately, it appears that the intensifying trade war between the U.S. andChina is giving sockmakers in Shetou a new lease on life.Wei Ping-i（魏平儀）, chairman of the Taiwan Hosiery Manufacturers’Association, told CommonWealth Magazine that he received an order from atrading company last week asking for 300 million pairs of socks for the U.S.market, which had originally been meant for producers in China. Thecustomer is desperately looking for manufacturers outside of China andTaiwan is one the countries they are looking to now, said Wei.Wei excitedly told the magazine, “Although Taiwan may no longer be thecheapest, it still has strong production and distribution capabilities. The 300million socks can be entirely eaten [produced] by Taiwan.” Wei added thatbecause none of his association members have investments in China, theyare actually able to benefit from the U.S.-China trade war.
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申論 2Please summarize in 7 sentences of your personal opinions on the new U.S.law（100 words in total）（35 分）US lawmakers introduced a bill on Wednesday to force Chinese companieslisted on US stock exchanges so as to submit to regulatory oversight, fornational security purposes.Chinese authorities have long been reluctant to allow overseas regulators toinspect local accounting firms — including member firms of the Big Fourinternational accounting networks — citing national security concerns.In spite of a 2013 agreement that ended a stalemate over the issue and allowedUS regulators to request audit working papers in China, there have beendifficulties in actually gaining access.At least two Hong Kong-based audit firms have been barred from auditingUS-listed companies, because they could not produce the papers US regulatorsasked for.“Beijing should no longer be allowed to shield US-listed Chinese companiesfrom complying with American laws and regulations for financial transparencyand accountability,” Republican US Senator Marco Rubio said in a statement.Last year, the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the PublicCompany Accounting Oversight Board issued a warning to investors aboutthe difficulties US regulators faced in inspecting the audit work and practicesof auditing firms in China that examine US-listed Chinese companies.There are 156 US-listed Chinese companies with a combined marketcapitalization of US$1.2 trillion, including oil and gas giant China Petroleum &Chemical Corp（中國石油化工）and Alibaba Group Holding（阿里巴巴）.“It’s time for China’s government to play by the same rules as Americancompanies in our financial markets,” Senator Bob Menendez, a Democratwho cosponsored the bill, said on Tuesday.
申論 3Please translate the following news into English（35 分）英國4 月經濟萎縮，英國國家統計局周一表示，4 月份經濟產值萎縮0.4%，創2016 年3 月份以來最大月度跌幅，因為汽車製造商在原定脫歐日期前後幾周採取了關閉工廠的預防措施。該數據顯示，隨着英國脫歐的不確定性上升，今年開局表現強勁的英國經濟在第二季度放緩。受脫歐條款問題的政治內鬥影響，英國脫歐日期已經兩次延遲，目前暫訂為10 月31 日。經濟萎縮受製造業拖累。當月汽車產量下滑24%，因為主要製造商將定期停產維護的時間改到3 月29 日前後，也就是原定的英國脫歐日期。停產意在防範突然脫歐可能造成的任何生產中斷。