During the 1980s, there was a rapid increase in economic exchanges between Taiwan and mainland China. This was due in part to the mainland's economic reform policy. It was also due to the adoption in the 1980s of a more moderate stance by mainland China regarding Taiwan. The article investigates...

The article examines the obstacles hindering the integration of the Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland Chinese economies into an organized "greater China economic sphere" and attempts to discover the most pragmatic approach fo co-operation among the three areas. It concludes that because of the wide...