The Political Effects Of The Cross-strait Economic And Trade Exchanges

With increasingly close communication of the cross strait, the political effect of the cross strait’s trade has become one important research subject. The cross strait’s trade experienced a process from nothing to something, a process of synchronized extension between the scale and level. During this process, Chinese mainland stick to carrying out the principle of hopes on Taiwan people, continuously promoting the cross strait’s trade deepening, tamping the material basis of the anti independence and promoting reunification, hoping to gradually change Taiwan people’s political identification, constructing psychological basis of the cross strait’ peaceful unity, promoting the cross strait’ relationship to develop peacefully, furthermore promoting peaceful unification of the cross strait. Taiwan pay more attention to the economic effect of the cross strait’s trade, the authorities and all parties hope to drive Taiwan’s the economic development with the cross strait’s trade deepening, on the other hand, for the whole area in Taiwan, they hope to avoid the marginalization in the international society through strengthening trade with the mainland.The development of the cross strait’s trade always influence Taiwan government’s policy making and transition. In the late of Jiang Jingguo’s ruling, the opening of relative visits was announced, the cross strait’s trade continuously shock the authorities’ closed and preservative policy to the mainland, promoting it more positive and open. With expansion and deepening of the cross strait’s trade, Taiwan people’s cognition of the mainland’s politics has become more friend, but the attitude towards the cross strait’s trade is indifference, at the same time, it does not change the reunification and independence identification, national identification. It shows that in some condition the cross strait has promoted the peaceful development of the cross strait’ relationship, but structural political conflicts have not solved fundamentally, from the short-term effect, the mainland government’s discount has not changed Taiwan people’s political identification.The reasons of this phenomenon mainly include below: 1. on the point of the rational self-benefit theory, although the cross strait’s trade bring positive influences to Taiwan’s economy on the whole, it does not bring more economic benefit to ordinary people. The development of economy does not improve the problem of fairness and justice in the inner society of Taiwan, Taiwan people still have an suspicious attitude towards the cross strait’s trade. 2. on the point of perceptual identification, the long-term political opposition between the cross strait, the Taiwan society’s suspicion of the so-called national security and Taiwan subject resistance’s loss, at ruling period of the Democratic Progressive Party the negative propaganda of eliminating-Chinese-culture and Taiwan Independence Forces, these all make Taiwan society has a sense of distrust towards the mainland authorities. The cross strait should stand on the long-term consideration and the future, promote continuously the cross strait’s trade deepening, furthermore prove relative policies and measures, notice the idea feedback of the cross strait’s trade, broaden the information transmission mechanism of the cross strait’s relationship, promote private trade to benefit Taiwan ordinary people. The proper discount of the mainland may prove the Taiwan people’s identification towards the mainland, reduce the backer’s number of Chinese mainland threat theory.