Many countries in the world miss that major point of developing its economies (from the Taipeitimes). Where is China on the list?
“The nation ranked 12th in the world and second — next only to Singapore — in Asia, in terms of collaboration between business and academic institutes, the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) […]
Taiwanese companies are not alowed to invest as much as they want in China - this situation changes only slowly, as the Taipeitimes reports:
“The government will retain its hardline stance toward businesses wishing to invest in China, keeping in place a cap on investment despite pressure to ease its policies, a Cabinet spokesman said yesterday.
Refusing […]
A never ending story? CENS reports:
“After a setback at the cross-Taiwan Strait section of the Conference on Sustainable Economic Development, business representatives managed to have the proposal of relaxing 40% Chinese investment ceiling listed as a “other opinion” of the financial and monetary section of the conference yesterday (July 27), retaining hope that the proposal […]
CENS has a nice case study of Taiwanese producers of lampholders who manufacture on the Mainland:
“As with manufacturers in many other industries, makers of lampholders, sockets and switches in Taiwan have all offshored production to mainland China to cut costs and ramp up production capacity. The strategy has proved successful, as most makers scramble to […]
This is a difficult topic - does the opening of Taiwan’s economy to the Chinese economy create or cost jobs on the island? This is what Taiwan’s president says and what was published at thestar online from Malaysia:
“Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian said in his latest weekly commentary that Taiwanese companies’ investments in China have cost […]
Taken from the Taipetimes
Until now it was not allowed to allow more than 30 business people to attend a business meeting in Taiwan. This is going to change, not only because foreign companies demanded a change of the rules, according to The China Post:
“Taiwan is set to ease restrictions on visits from Chinese business travelers and is confident […]
Taiwan’s president Chen Shuibian once more gave a speach about the business relation between Taiwan and China. And what was written was different from what was spoken, as the China Post reports:
“Taiwan First” and “Investing in Taiwan First” should be the basic mindset in the formulation of economic and trade policy toward China, President Chen […]
These towels seem to be itchy, as The China Post reports:
“Taiwan’s and China’s delegations to the World Trade Organization (WTO) have held their first round of negotiations on Taipei’s plan to impose safeguard measures against towel imports from China, sources said Thursday.
The talks mark the first between the two sides under the WTO framework since […]
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The author is an expert on China and Taiwan. His work is focused on the economic development as well as the business relations between both sides of the Taiwan strait. He spent two years in Taiwan and visits China several times a year. Currently the author is living in Germany.
