in case you didnt get the memo. believe it or not when it push comes to shove, political trumps economics. The truth is that if the counterparty to the agreement were a country other than China -- or a democratized China that would treat Taiwan as an equal and stop trying to achieve its political agenda through business, and didnt want to swallow us up -- wed happily accept the pact. Take the words from the above paragraphs and insert Japan or the United States in place of China -- there would be no issue. When Taiwan signed a free trade agreement with New Zealand in June 2013, the public wasnt out for blood then.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 05:36:57 +0000
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