| 英文摘要 |
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement is an important milestone in East Asian regional integration, combining several ASEAN-Plus-One agreements with China, South Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and, presumably, India which intended to strengthen regional industrial supply chains. However, is the regional integration per se or regional supply chain really so beneficial to countries in the area? Over the years Taiwan, as one of the earliest emerging East Asian tigers, has been actively involved in regional production networks which had benefited to its businesses tremendously, but also revealed a crucial problem of skill shortages in in-dustries within the country as we had witnessed a stall in real wages of domestic la-bors as well as deterioration of its terms of trade. We, therefore, cannot help to wonder if the RCEP or other regional integration schemes are just some myths. Maybe we should seriously reexamine the potential crisis in nowadays capitalism which could be of prominently harmful implications for the future of Taiwan or even the whole region. This paper tries to explore, from the perspective of global trade and investment patterns caused by production fragmentation, how transnational en-terprises, through RCEP and other regional production division strategies which de-liberately ignored non-tariff measures, have brought impacts and influences on Tai-wan. It is meant to clarify a popular myth imbued in RCEP and other regional inte-gration schemes on one hand, and to point out crucial conundrum in current indus-trial development in Taiwan on the other hand, so as to provide some foods for thought for further studies. |
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