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Tkacik says Taiwan to lose comparative advantage if it signs ECFA
Tkacik says Taiwan to lose comparative advantage if it signs ECFA
譚慎格：簽ECFA 台灣將失原有優勢
〔駐美特派員曹郁芬／華府二十八日報導〕美國學者譚慎格今天表示，台灣如果和中國先簽署ＥＣＦＡ，再和美國簽自由貿易協定（ＦＴＡ），就等於為中國打開一道自由貿易的後門，讓他對支持美台簽署ＦＴＡ持保留態度。
譚慎格說，台灣的產業外移現象雖早已發生，但台灣的半導體和高科技產業在兩岸簽署ＥＣＦＡ後，會加速往中國移轉，讓台灣失去原本的經濟優勢，而且白領階級來台灣搶工作機會的情況會增加。
台若被併吞 不符美利益
他批評，兩岸ＥＣＦＡ的談判太神秘，等大家看到最後結果會太晚了。
台灣人公共事務會今天在國會舉辦美台ＦＴＡ座談會，邀請譚慎格與美國前亞太副助卿薛瑞福出席。
薛瑞福表示，他不反對兩岸簽署貿易協定，但談判和簽署過程應該透明，且對台灣人民有利，最重要的是，台灣要有避險計劃，不能因為ＥＣＦＡ完全依賴中國。
Letter to the Editor: China's industrial might
The perception of 44 percent of Americans that "China is already the world's top economic power," while modestly inaccurate, alas is not so "completely at odds with the facts," as Arthur Kroeber would have your readers believe ["Five myths about China's economy," Outlook, April 11]. In pure exchange rate terms, China's $5 trillion gross domestic product is about a third of America's $14 trillion economy. But as most economists would admit, China's renminbi currency is grossly undervalued.
The Rising Chinese Superpower
The Rising Chinese Superpower
By John J. Tkacik, Jr.
Thank you Joan. The last time I spoke to you all here at the Dallas Public Affairs Luncheon Club was on January 16, 2006. Perhaps some of you here this afternoon remember me from four years ago -- I’m afraid that my presentation was pretty pessimistic. I confess, I had a number of skeptical -- if not hostile -- questions from you-all in the audience.
Sea of Blood, Year of Friendship: China-North Korean Relations in 2009
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Sea of Blood, Year of Friendship: China-North Korean Relations in 2009
By John J. Tkacik, Jr.
It is apparent that North Korea had been preparing for the May 25 nuclear weapons test since late last year, after the U.S. presidential election and while North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il was recuperating from a debilitating stroke he suffered last summer. And it seems that the Chinese leadership was well aware of the internal political dynamics propelling Pyongyang toward a nuclear bomb.
The Taiwan Conundrum: Maritime Security Capacity Building in East Asia Before a Taiwan Strait Settlement
The Taiwan Conundrum:
Maritime Security Capacity Building in East Asia Before a Taiwan Strait Settlement
By John J. Tkacik, Jr.
Hu you gonna to call? Pyongyang gets Chinese advice on Bill Clinton
Hu you gonna to call? Pyongyang gets Chinese advice on Bill Clinton
By John J. Tkacik, Jr.
Visits by top China delegations to Pyongyang coincided with Clinton's
by John J. Tkacik
The curious appearances in Pyongyang of senior Chinese propaganda and intelligence delegations simultaneous to Bill Clinton's early August visit coincided with false rumors that China had halted "vanadium" shipments to North Korea and had shut down a copper mine operation in the country. The Clinton visit turned out to be a propaganda coup for "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il. Is there more to China-North Korea amity than meets the untrained eye?
Media Analysis: China Ties with North Korea Undiminished
Media Analysis: China Ties with North Korea Undiminished
Technology Transfer from Taiwan to China: Is there a Risk?
Technology Transfer from Taiwan to China: Is there a Risk?
by John J. Tkacik, Jr.
For two decades, American foreign policy operated on the premise that trade with China would have an inevitable liberalizing effect. This persisted after the Tiananmen crisis, and even after the 1996 Taiwan Strait missile crisis when Beijing attempted to intimidate Taiwanese voters from casting ballots for President Lee Teng-hui. It was at the foundation of Clinton's China policy and apparently undergirds the Bush policy as well.
With Repression in Tibet, Rethink Olympics
by John Tkacik, Jr.
Unofficial calls for a general boycott of China's Olympics have gotten Beijing's attention, but Beijing remains confident that Hollywood celebrities are neither serious about nor capable of achieving a boycott.
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