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Monday, July 26, 2010     GET REAL

Beijing lures Taiwan into its political web after concluding trade deal too good to refuse

INSIDE CHINA: On the surface, the just-concluded Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between China and Taiwan seems an unequal treaty: Taiwan will enjoy $13.8 billion worth of tariff reductions on China-bound goods, while mainland China will only reap tax benefits totaling about $2.9 billion. Yet from the point of view of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership, ECFA is a milestone in Beijing's decades-long effort to secure the return of the "breakaway province" to the motherland's womb.




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