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Suspicions abound over Ma’s ECFA deadline

Jerome Keating

It is two years into the reign of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) the incompetent, and it appears the one-trick pony is getting desperate to defend his efforts to drag Taiwan into economic dependency on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) through an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA).

The latest effort of Ma and his combined hired gun and snake-oil salesman King Pu-tsung (金溥聰) is a string of expensive TV ads describing how the country will totally lose its competitiveness if it does not give the government a blank check to sign an ECFA.

Seeing The 228's Sunlight

Taiwan Tati Cultural & Educational Foundation

On Februray 28^th 2010, we, @-Bian Custers, gathered together with the yearning of the heart.

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The History of Taiwan: Postwar Era and The 228 Incident

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The History of Taiwan: Postwar Era and The 228 Incident

Is an ECFA beneficial to Taiwan … or the US?

Nat Bellocchi

On March 18, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) held a hearing on recent economic, political and military developments between Taiwan and China and their implications for the US. A broad range of important issues was raised, but one is of utmost interest: the proposed economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) between Taiwan and China.

While trade agreements between countries are commonplace, this one has some complex elements: It will be an agreement between two “entities” (for lack of a better term) which officially do not recognize each other’s sovereignty.

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