ISDS Case Map
Taiwan
Taiwan's former vice president said that the KMT and CCP are plotting a “3-3-3” scheme that includes an ECFA, confidence-building and a peace treaty by 2011
The administration of President Ma Ying-jeou should ask Beijing to sign a free trade agreement under the framework of the WTO, rather than seeking to ink an economic cooperation framework agreement under the “one China” principle, participants at an economic forum said yesterday.
A free trade agreement expected to be inked soon between South Korea and the European Union threatens to leave Taiwan at a disadvantage in expanding trade with Europe, but the government hopes potential trade enhancement measures will offset the blow.
Taiwan and China could sign a free-trade style agreement later than expected, a top Taiwanese official for cross-strait affairs said. His comments prompted the island's stock market to drop sharply on Monday.
A renowned Japanese scholar urged Tokyo to enhance bilateral trading ties with Taipei through inking a free trade agreement or establishing a multilateral economic cooperation framework that includes Taiwan.
The possibility of China and Taiwan reaching a formal free trade agreement in 2009 or later depends on complex bilateral (i.e. China and Taiwan), triangular (i.e. China, Taiwan and the United State), multilateral (e.g. ASEAN, WTO), and even global forces (e.g. the global recession and the G-20 response).
The Chinese mainland expects talks about a cross-Strait economic cooperation agreement to start in the latter half of this year, said President Hu Jintao Tuesday.
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Sunday urged China to sign a trade pact with Taiwan as soon as possible, despite objection from Taiwan's opposition party DPP.
Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen announced that her party would launch a drive to collect one million signatures for a national citizen referendum on the Kuomintang government's plan to sign an economic cooperation agreement with China and declared that the end of a 24-hour sit-in in front of the presidential office marked "the beginning of a second democratic reform movement."
The leader of Taiwan's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Monday vowed to launch a referendum in a bid to stop the signing of a major trade pact with rival China.
