Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 08/2010

Deepening China-Taiwan Relations through the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement

Daniel H. Rosen

June 2010

Peterson Institute for International Economics

Abstract

On Sunday, June 13, 2010 representatives from China and Taiwan1 held a third round of talks in Beijing on an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) that would liberalize important aspects of cross-Strait economic relations. Details of what was agreed and what remains under negotiation are still trickling out, and in any case the nature of this framework is that various elements will be agreed upon on an ongoing basis rather than at once.