ISSUE NO.168 
  Issue No. 168 2010 Taiwan’s Real Challenges: After the Signature of ECFA

Taiwan and China officially signed the Economic Cooperative Framework Agreement (ECFA) on 29 June 2010. Both because China made significant concessions in the early harvest list and the Kuomintang (KMT) has a majority in the Legislative Yuan, the legislature is likely to pass ECFA. Cross-Strait relations have officially entered the phase after ECFA. However, ECFA is merely a framework agreement, not a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Accordingly, Taiwan’s real challenges lie in...