Part of the Washington-Taipei-Beijing Relations Occasional Paper Special Series

This paper examines the economic policy toward China that the current president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, has adopted since 2016 by (1) comparing Tsai’s policy with her predecessors’ (i.e., Lee Teng-hui’s, Chen Shui-bian’s, and Ma Ying-jeou’s policies), (2) exploring the ambivalent attitude toward China-Taiwan economic ties among the Taiwanese general public, and (3) analyzing Tsai’s response to China’s growing economic coercion against Taiwan.

Part of the Washington-Taipei-Beijing Relations Occasional Paper Special Series

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This paper examines the economic policy toward China that the current president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, has adopted since 2016 by (1) comparing Tsai’s policy with her predecessors’ (i.e., Lee Teng-hui’s, Chen Shui-bian’s, and Ma Ying-jeou’s policies), (2) exploring the ambivalent attitude toward China-Taiwan economic ties among the Taiwanese general public, and (3) analyzing Tsai’s response to China’s growing economic coercion against Taiwan.