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Article: Taiwan, China Negotiating a Landmark Free-Trade Agreement
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- The Washington Post
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- February 21, 2009
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Taiwan and China are negotiating a wide-ranging free-trade
agreement that represents an important step toward the possibility
of unification of the longtime adversaries.
The Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement would allow the
free flow of goods, services and capital across the Taiwan Strait at
a time when the economies of the mainland and the democratic self-
ruled island are increasingly interdependent. While Taiwanese groups
have tried to play down the political implications of the economic
pact, those on the mainland are already talking about the eventual
union of the two.
Li Fei, deputy director of the Taiwan Studies Center at Xiamen
University on the mainland, said the ...