ISDS Case Map
Taiwan
The Philippines is exploring the possibility of forging a bilateral agreement with Taipei, with talks to start between the two governments this week at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation trade ministers’ meeting in Japan.
Taiwan has made strides in negotiating free trade agreements with the Philippines and Singapore, the United Evening News reported yesterday, citing an unnamed high-level source within the government.
Opposition groups staged Thursday a sit-in in Taipei against the government's plan to sign an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China.
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside of Taiwan's parliament on Thursday. Led by the main opposition party, the protesters called for a referendum on a free trade deal that is due to be signed with China in June.
Taiwan is pitching a controversial free-trade framework deal with China as a way to get its giant neighbour and political rival to allow it to seek similar deals with other countries, giving a boost to its $390 billion economy.
President Ma Ying-jeou said Tuesday that Japan is a major trading partner of Taiwan and that he hopes the two countries can sign a free trade agreement (FTA).
A 3-day protest in Taiwan against the proposed ECFA with China will begin 20 May 2010.
On Wednesday, China once again put conditions on the government of President Ma Ying-jeou. This time it was Wang Yi, director of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, who set the conditions by saying that, as long as the two sides of the Taiwan Strait can work together to oppose Taiwanese independence and uphold the “1992 consensus,” that will be the political guarantee for cross-strait cooperation.
The Ma Ying-jeou administration would seek to nullify the economic cooperation framework agreement expected to be signed with mainland China if the Taiwanese people vetoed the pact via a referendum, Minister of Economic Affairs Shih Yen-shiang said in the Legislative Yuan May 5.
The Taiwanese government working toward the goal of signing the proposed economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China in June
