ISDS Case Map
Taiwan
In response to fierce criticism over a trade pact the government may sign with China, Premier Liu Chao-shiuan has pledged that Taiwan's sovereignty will not be affected by such a deal and that no Chinese workers will be introduced to Taiwan.
TSMC Chairman Morris Chang endorsed the government's plan to sign free trade pacts with Taiwan's major trading partners, saying Saturday that it would not be "too late" to sign a proposed Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with China by the end of this year.
China will push for a comprehensive economic accord with Taiwan and wants to broaden discussions to involve military issues, Premier Wen Jiabao said.
Critics of the government yesterday told a forum that the government's proposed economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China was tantamount to a “one China market.”
The four-letter acronym of a proposed trade pact has sparked such a storm in Taiwan that the government had to change its name.
Alliance of Referendum for Taiwan representative Tsay Ting-kuei said that if Taiwan signs a CECA under the “one China” principle, the agreement would symbolize Taiwan's surrender to China.
Taiwan is pushing for bilateral free trade agreements with individual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members as a more feasible way for the country to participate in regional economic integration
Taiwan and China are negotiating a wide-ranging free-trade agreement that represents an important step toward the possibility of unification of the longtime adversaries.
The right-wing Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) government is now preparing to literally give away the power to make or break Taiwan's economy and officially surrender Taiwan's sovereignty to the hostile People's Republic of China.
Taiwan's former permanent representative to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Yen Ching-chang said yesterday that the signing of a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) between Taiwan and China may not be consistent with WTO principles.
