China Stalls Over Redoing Taiwan Trade Pact

Taiwan grows anxious over looming deadline

By: Jens Kastner

A beneficial bilateral trade agreement put in place in 2010 by China to attempt to lure Taiwan closer into Beijing’s embrace is now expiring with no word whether it will be renewed. The initially-agreed 10-year duration of the pact ends on June 29 with an option for review by either side.  

With Beijing seriously angered by Taiwan’s refus…