{"id":171158,"date":"2014-04-08T01:42:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T08:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=171158"},"modified":"2021-09-14T21:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:21:16","slug":"standoff-taiwan-legislature-close-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/04\/standoff-taiwan-legislature-close-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Group to End China Trade Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times&#8217; Austin Ramzy reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/08\/world\/asia\/concession-offered-taiwan-group-to-end-protest-of-china-trade-pact.html?smid=tw-share\"><strong>student protesters have promised to end their three-week long sit in at the Taiwanese legislature<\/strong><\/a>, after speaker Wang Jin-pyng conceded to\u00a0closer oversight of trade agreements with China. The occupation began as a part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/03\/taiwanese-riot-police-clear-protesters-cabinet-offices\/\">student demonstrations against a trade pact made by the\u00a0Kuomintang\u00a0Party to liberalize service sector trade with mainland China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMany people asked, If you leave this place, won\u2019t you lose your bargaining chip?\u201d said Chen Wei-ting, one of the student leaders, at a news conference announcing the end of the occupation. \u201cThe truth is, everything we\u2019ve said and all our energy has allowed this to spread from a student movement to a movement of all the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] While many protesters and their supporters say they oppose the trade deal outright, others endorse some form of a service trade pact with China. The most widely held complaint is that the agreement has been hurried along with little opportunity for public review. Protesters call the government\u2019s methods a \u201cblack box\u201d and have named their campaign the Sunflower Movement, a reference to sunlight and transparency.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] \u201cThe greater the trade amounts from the two sides, the greater concern of the general public about China becomes,\u201d said Huang Kwei-bo, an associate professor of diplomacy at National Chengchi University, who served as a policy adviser during Mr. Ma\u2019s presidential campaign. \u201cI think it\u2019s very clear: Mainland China has tried very hard to buy Taiwan, to win the support of Taiwan\u2019s people economically. But I don\u2019t think that strategy really works.\u201d [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/08\/world\/asia\/concession-offered-taiwan-group-to-end-protest-of-china-trade-pact.html?smid=tw-share\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nevertheless, Aries Poon and Tom Wright report at China Real Time, polls show a public more or less evenly divided over the pact, which remains &#8220;likely to pass eventually in some form.&#8221; In any case, they argue, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2014\/04\/07\/taiwan-protests-cant-stop-china-trade\/\"><strong>the-long term trend of expanding economic ties seems inexorable<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For one, China and Taiwan\u2019s economies already are inextricably linked. About a third of Taiwan\u2019s $300 billion per year in exports go to China, largely electronic components, petrochemicals and textiles.<\/p>\n<p>Many Taiwanese firms, including Foxconn, which assembles Apple Inc.\u2019s\u00a0iPhone, have set up factories in China to benefit from cheaper costs and a larger domestic market.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Taiwan\u2019s banks, brokers and retailers are hoping to get better access to China\u2019s market through the services pact. Business groups view China\u2019s market as a way to boost the economy, which grew at just over 2% last year, hobbled by high costs and a small domestic market.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u00a0The public\u2019s view on hugging China closer is more mixed. A recent government-organized poll, released last week, found that 58% of respondents want the protesters to leave the legislature. It also found that 41% of respondents supported the services pact, while 40% disapproved. [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2014\/04\/07\/taiwan-protests-cant-stop-china-trade\/\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times&#8217; Austin Ramzy reports that student protesters have promised to end their three-week long sit in at the Taiwanese legislature, after speaker Wang Jin-pyng conceded to\u00a0closer oversight of trade agreements with China. 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