The Enemy Within - Taiwan splintering over China policy

TAIWAN’s Sunflower Student Movement has thrown into sharp relief the divisions in Taiwanese society over relations with China, reflecting fears that the ruling KMT has been moving too rapidly in its rapprochement with Beijing. A Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement already signed off by China remains stalled in the Legislative Yuan, with further Cross-Strait negotiations apparently in limbo as a Presidential election, likely on current trends to be won by the Opposition DPP, looms in 2016. Meanwhile, China is finalising a free trade deal with South Korea, Taiwan’s head-to-head competitor in the China market on 77 per cent of all Taiwanese export products, putting new pressure on the economy . . .