A Study of Political Factors on the Development of Cross-Straits Economy and Trade Influenced by Economic Gobalization

• Main Authors: Hsi-Ling Wu, 吳希玲
• Other Authors: 朱言明
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96103329239632959834

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 國際政治研究所 === 94 === “Globalization” has become the most important tendency internationally for half century, and it seriously and worldwide influences the aspects of development of each country, such as on political, economical, social and cultural etc. Globalization, in a way, reunites the whole world as an independent society in which also each country relies on each other. In 1977, Deng Xiao Ping stepped up as the PRC leader. In the following year-1978-, Deng had the power to direct “The 3rd session of 13th National People’s congress of PRC”. Deng’s claimed in this time’s congress conclusion that he is going to change the traditional economic market model which is a traditionally projected by plans. He would like to have the Chinese economy as a developing-opened market. After a number of proper policies had been proposed, the economically-opened environment created a market which attracted a lot of foreign investments, and it suddenly brought a lot of capital from other countries. The capital has been brought into China which is far more than every single area as a nation around the whole world. After 1987, Taiwanese government approved that its people were allowed to visit their relatives in China. From the time, both sides of the Strait of Taiwan had the opportunity to start the investments and activities of international trade. However concerning the political obstacles and the limits of policy restricted the investments and the amount of trades crossing the strait. On one hand, in Taiwan, due to some disadvantages of investment, such as the increase of laborage, shortage of laborer, decline of working ethics, increase of land price, revaluation of Taiwanese dollar, awareness of eco-awareness, politic conflicts and aggravation of public security etc, the labor-intensive industries could hardly be upgraded to gain space to survive in Taiwan, and they were “pushed” to go to other areas. On the other hand, China started providing investment benefits in certain economically-opened areas along the south-east coast based on Deng’s claims. Also, based on some advantages of labor-intensive industries in China , such as the natural resources and low labor cost etc, China became a “fascinated” area in which attracted lots of anxious Taiwanese business activities to go to. According to these circumstances, Taiwanese authority thus started to limit the investments that cross the strait in case of the “Deindustrialization” of Taiwan. Furthermore Taiwanese government used these restrictions to avert the political “traps” that Chinese authority used the economy to force Taiwan to negotiate the “consolidation” of both sides of Taiwan Strait, and the “economic power” replaced the political and military camouflage. Unfortunately these could not stop Taiwanese business men’s to move west-ward to China. In this thesis, levels of analysis and systems of analysis are going to be used to discuss that under the influences of economic globalization of different ideologies, benefits of societies and political parties, the leaders of both sides of Taiwan Strait have to consider the trade policies. According to the journals, trade laws, statistic between Taiwanese and Chinese governments and commentaries of news, those experts from Taiwan and China explained various points of view that the political concerns may influence too much on the business activities between Taiwan and China. Also they claimed that it may be risky to continue the “Asia-Pacific Regional Operations Center plan” of Taiwan. To sum up, both sides of Taiwan Strait have to get rid of the influences of different political ambitions in order to cooperate the economic developments. Taiwanese authority, in order to increase the national competitiveness by concerning the national security, has to gradually adopt well-planned policies and consider the possibility to continue the plan of “Three Ways of Cross-Straits Transportations”.