Political Economy of China-Taiwan Relations by Chen Chien-Kai;

Author:Chen, Chien-Kai; [Chen, Chien-Kai]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2018-03-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

The Politicization of Cross-Strait Economic Ties

The Emergence of Economic Losers and the Conflict between the Pro-Openness and Anti-Openness Political Coalitions, 2000–2006

In this chapter, I explore the conflict over the issues of cross-strait economic ties in Taiwan’s domestic politics in the period from 2000 to 2006. During this period of time, unlike the period that I have examined in the previous chapter, the conflict involved more actors fighting against each other for their own political or economic interests. The discussions in this chapter are focused on four aspects of the conflict from 2000 to 2006: (1) the emergence of the economic losers; (2) the formation of the pro-openness and the anti-openness coalitions as a result of the Pan-Blue and the Pan-Green politically exploiting the cleavage between the economic winners and losers; (3) the clash between the aforementioned two coalitions; and (4) the position of the Taiwanese government on cross-strait economic ties in general.

As this chapter will show, throughout the period from 2000 to 2006, (1) the pro-openness and the anti-openness coalitions not only conflicted with each other but also tried their best to influence the policy-making of the Taiwanese government on the issues of cross-strait economic ties; and (2) the Taiwanese government was relatively pro-openness in the beginning, but, because of the pressure from the anti-openness coalition, it gradually revealed an anti-openness tendency and became completely against openness by the end of 2006.

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