A Study on China’s Red Supply Chain: Its Political Economic Impacts on Taiwan and South Korea

• Main Authors: Lin, Ching Hsi, 林靜禧
• Other Authors: 謝目堂
• Format: Others
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vhgwuw

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 韓國語文學系 === 106 === This study tries to analyze with the so-called China’s ‘Red Supply Chain’, which is defined as ‘the strategy that forms a new structure of China-led international specialization or division of labor through substituting imported intermediary goods with its domestic ones as well as occupying more higher added-values in the global value chains. It also aims at understanding such political economic changes’ impacts on the industries and domestic politics of the China’s major trading partners— Taiwan and South Korea. Based upon the theories—mercantilism, liberalism, and flying-geese model in international political economy, we find that this political change plays a significant role of opportunity as well as threat to the foreign relation between China and its two major neighbors. Such an argument is supported by the three case studies on display, semiconductor, and smartphone industries, which are seriously influenced by the China’s Red Supply Chain; first, in economic perspectives and second, in political perspectives. This study contributes to understanding the political economic interactions between China and its two neighbors that urgently deals with the changes and impacts from Red Supply Chain in comparative perspectives.