The Effect of Economic Ties on Tensions between Taiwan and China

The relationship between two countries is often determined by how the two governments behave toward each other and their economic impact on each other. In the long-lasting tensions between China and Taiwan, government interaction was often hostile in rhetoric or action; however trade relations curiously did not mirror those trends precisely. This research explores the political and economic relations between China and Taiwan to determine how trade could exist among these tensions and what affect trade may have had on them. Trade data is utilized to illustrate the extent of economic ties between China and Taiwan, and to present the development of trade. Policy decisions, changes in government leadership, and the history of Taiwan and China are analyzed to demonstrate the flavor of political tensions and explore their development