英文摘要 |
This paper analyzes the evolution of industrial coopetition between Taiwan and China over the past two decades to figure out the key factors attributable to the current development bottlenecks encountered by the Taiwanese industries. We apply the concepts of value-added trade and use the world inputoutput tables compiled by the European Union to establish our inter-regional input-output models. Decomposition analyses are also carried out to identify the factors most responsible for driving the changes in value-added trade for both Taiwan and China. Our results indicate that China’s manufacturing value added embodied in trade has been growing quickly ascompared to Taiwan, Korea and Japan. From the bilateral trade point of view, the share of value added embodied in China’s imports sourced from Taiwan, Korea and Japan has been declining significantly. Conversely, Taiwan relies more and more heavily on the value-added sourcing from China. This development is certainly not a good sign for Taiwan, as it points to the fact that the competitive advantage position of Taiwanese firms i nChinahas been deteriorating. |