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Originally Posted by nyczyang27
Please elaborate.
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1) China is Taiwan's biggest trading partner.
2) Taiwan accounts for less than 5% of China's trade.
3) Taiwan is an island, they have very limited natural resources. They depend on China for a vast majority of raw materials including rocks believe it or not.
4) Taiwan could import raw material from other nations but China is the cloest "big raw material nation" to them geographicaly therefore cheapest cost.
5) Taiwan businesses have thousands of factories in China where if China refused these factories, majority of these businesses would fail.
6) Taiwan stock market ties in closely with Shanghai Index often mimiking its trends.
7) Cheap agricultral imports from China sustain the Taiwan food source, Taiwan domestic food production only account for 1.76 percent of GDP.
8) Taiwan could import food from else where, but will be more expansive, therefore lead to sharp increase to food prices and causes civil unrest.
9) China AND the US provided protection to Taiwan from foreign invasion due to fact that Taiwan is not yet fully capable of protecting themselves.
10) Taiwan NEED China to not shit on them so hard (in the case of declaration of independence) that everyone on the island will be drowning in shit...