An Analysis On Taiwan's Go-south Policy

The Taiwan government introduced three programmatic policy documents for the Go-South Policy during 1994 to 2003,as well as a number of supporting measures.Each stage of the Go-South Policy focus on different:guiding traditional enterprises to invest in Southeast Asia(1994);encouraging financial institutions to base in Southeast Asia development(1998);promoting FTA between Taiwan and Southeast Asia(2002).Why the contents of the Go-South Policy changed?We discover that the policy environment has changed.This study attempts to compare the different stages of Taiwan the Go-South Policy development in the perspective of Multidimensional Level Theory and support the hypothesis that Multidimensional Level Theory determines Taiwan's Go-South Policy development.Multidimensional Level Theory is composed of three dimensions and three levels——politics,economy and culture;individual,internal system and external system.It has two structural characteristics:multidimensional and multilevel.Therefore,Multidimensional Level Theory includes nine general indicators:Political Elite,Party Politics,Foreign Politics,Economic Groups,Economic Situation,Foreign Economy,Public Awareness,Collective Identity and Cultural Exchange.With the help of Multidimensional Level Theory,We draw a conclusions of Taiwan's Go-South Policy development:Political Elite,Foreign Politics,Economic Situation,Foreign Economy and Collective Identity are the homogeneities of the Go-South Policy development.While the heterogeneities are party politics and cultural exchange.The impact of Public Awareness and Economic Groups is not obvious and only affect the results of Taiwan's Go-South Policy.