Taiwan Invited To Light Up Chinese Cities
From AP: Chinese officials have invited Taiwanese companies to supply selected mainland cities with ultra-bright, energy-saving LED lights, the latest in a series of big business deals between the...
View ArticleTaiwan Opens 100 Industries to Chinese Investment
From Bloomberg: Taiwan will allow investment from mainland China in 100 industries and projects, helping the island’s economy to benefit from the warmest cross-strait relations in 60 years. Taiwan will...
View ArticleTaiwan Benefits From China’s Economic Stimulus
From AFP: Taiwan has benefited from its giant neighbour’s measures to stimulate its economy by offering subsidies to consumers, the island’s government said in a report. Taiwan exported 4.65 billion US...
View ArticleChinese Banks Plan Taiwan Branches, China Merchants CEO Ma Says
From Bloomberg: China Merchants Bank Co. is among at least five Chinese banks applying to open branches in Taiwan as relations between the two governments thaw, said Ma Weihua, chief executive officer...
View ArticleTaiwan Leader Calls For China Trade Pact But No Rush To Meet Hu
From AFP: Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday called for a trade pact with China but said he was not likely to meet his Chinese counterpart soon despite warming ties between the former bitter...
View ArticleMa Says Taiwan-China Economic Embrace ‘the Beginning’
From Bloomberg: Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou says he’s only getting started in opening new economic links with China, after doing more than any of his predecessors to improve relations since the...
View ArticleHistoric China Trade Deal Possible In June: Taiwan President
From AFP: President Ma Ying-jeou said Thursday Taiwan could sign an historic trade deal with China as early as June and that it would bring major benefits to the whole Asian region. In an interview...
View ArticleChina, Taiwan Reach Basic Agreement on Tariff Reductions
From Bloomberg: China and Taiwan said they reached a basic agreement on tariff reductions in a third round of talks to boost economic and trade relations. “We are still working on details, but the...
View ArticleChina, Taiwan Forge Strongest Ties Yet with Sweeping Trade Deal
The Christian Science Monitor reports on a historic new trade deal between the mainland and Taiwan: The deal, known as the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), will lower tariffs on two-way...
View ArticleOpponents of China Trade Deal Occupy Taiwan’s Legislature
On Tuesday evening, hundreds of students and activists occupied the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan’s unicameral legislative assembly, to voice opposition to a trade pact with Mainland China. Activists have...
View Article‘This Isn’t the Democracy We Want': Some Chinese Dismayed by Taiwan Occupation
As students and activists begin their third day occupying Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan in protest of the ruling Kuomintang party’s decision to pass a controversial China trade pact without the agreed-upon...
View ArticleTaiwanese Protesters Raid Government HQ
The Associated Press in Taiwan (via The Guardian) reports that “hundreds of protesters opposed to a trade pact with China have invaded Taiwan’s cabinet offices,” and “up to 1,000 demonstrators”...
View ArticleTaiwanese Riot Police Clear Protesters from Cabinet Offices
Ralph Jennings of the Los Angeles Times reports that riot police were summoned to clear protesters outside the Taiwanese cabinet offices following student demonstrations against a trade pact that will...
View ArticleTaiwan Group to End China Trade Protest
The New York Times’ Austin Ramzy reports that student protesters have promised to end their three-week long sit in at the Taiwanese legislature, after speaker Wang Jin-pyng conceded to closer oversight...
View ArticleApple Supplier in China Accused of Labor Violations
At PC News, Stephanie Mlot reports that China Labor Watch and Green America, two US-based nonprofit labor watchdog organizations, claim to have uncovered safety and labor violations at an Apple...
View ArticleChina Heads for a Showdown with Taiwan
Beijing is ramping up pressure on Taiwan ahead of the May 20th inauguration of its first female president, Tsai Ing-wen, the chair of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party who won the...
View ArticleBeijing Halts Taiwan Contacts Over “One China” Principle
The Chinese government announced over the weekend that it has suspended all diplomatic communications with Taiwan over President Tsai Ing-wen’s refusal to fully recognize the “1992 Consensus” and its...
View ArticlePanama Severs Diplomatic Ties With Taiwan
Panama has cut its diplomatic relations with Taiwan to establish ties with Beijing in recognition of the “one China” principle. At The New York Times, Chris Horton and Steven Lee Myers report on...
View ArticleChinese Banks Plan Taiwan Branches, China Merchants CEO Ma Says
From Bloomberg: China Merchants Bank Co. is among at least five Chinese banks applying to open branches in Taiwan as relations between the two governments thaw, said Ma Weihua, chief executive officer...
View ArticleTaiwan Leader Calls For China Trade Pact But No Rush To Meet Hu
From AFP: Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday called for a trade pact with China but said he was not likely to meet his Chinese counterpart soon despite warming ties between the former bitter...
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