By:
Riley Walters
On February 12, officials from the United States and Taiwan signed an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART) (台美對等貿易協定) in Washington, DC. The ART is the most significant trade agreement between the United States and Taiwan in decades, and perhaps the closest thing the two countries will ever have to a bilateral trade agreement. The ART will eliminate or reduce trade barriers, and up to 99% of tariff barriers. It reflects a desire by both sides to promote the U.S.-Taiwan economic partnership through increased investment and commercial opportunities. But getting the ART approved by Taiwan’s legislature will be the greatest challenge before seeing this deal go into force.
By:
John Dotson
Since the end of Taiwan’s martial law era in the late 1980s and the island’s gradual transition into a free and democratic society, the island has seen the flowering of one of the most vibrant civil societies in Asia. The wide network of grassroots non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Taiwan has not only made progress possible on a host of challenging social issues within Taiwan itself, but has also made the island an example for other regional civil society activists (see Ben Sando’s article “Taiwan as an Exporter of Democracy in Southeast Asia,” elsewhere in this issue) and a regional NGO hub for international organizations.
By:
Jonathan Harman
Drones are increasingly central to modern warfare—a fact illustrated by the widespread use of such weapons in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. In order to modernize its military and counter growing Chinese aggression, Taiwan is aiming to become a drone manufacturing powerhouse. However, unlike previous indigenous defense production projects, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND, 國防部) is relying more on the private sector than state-owned enterprises (SOE). While this effort is largely succeeding at its early stages, material costs and stymied international cooperation pose challenges to industrial growth.
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