Word: china
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...have been talking about an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with China. What do you want to achieve with that...
...focusing on air transport; a financial supervisory mechanism covering stocks, futures and insurance companies, which will be negotiated in the next couple of months; also food safety, postal cooperation, a joint effort to combat crime and judicial assistance. These are all milestone agreements. (Read about new business deals between China and Taiwan...
...There's a substantial part of the Taiwanese population that is concerned economic integration with China will mean political integration. How can you help them understand that you can, as you have said in the past, "manage" the sovereignty issue, without actually settling...
...started to manage the sovereignty issue as early as 1992. At the time, China said we have to observe the One-China principle. We said we can accept the One-China principle but our definition is different from yours. We accept that principle not because we want to please them, but this is what our constitution says, and our constitution was adopted in 1946, three years before the Chinese communists came into power...we don't recognize the mainland as a nation nor do they recognize (Taiwan) as a nation. So what I have called for is that we continue...
...done things like opening up direct transportation links to the mainland, we'd suffer more. Cost reduction is very important for businessmen. For the shipping industry, they [previously] had to move goods to China by stopping over in a tiny town in Okinawa and paying $5,000 to $10,000 to get a chop to say they've been though a third place. We've done this stupid thing for more than 20 years, and that little town has got a windfall, but now it's changed...