台灣日本合作進軍大陸市場

Recently the Yomiuri News reported the following:
台湾の馬英九総統は２１日、台北市内の総統府で、読売新聞グループ本社の老川祥一・最高顧問と日本経済新聞社の杉田亮毅会長の共同インタビューに応じ、日台間の経済協力について、急成長する中国市場への共同進出をにらみ、「もっと制度化することができる」と述べ、投資保護協定などの締結が必要との考えを表明した。
　馬総統は「（日台が）共同で市場に出れば、成功率は高まる」と述べ、中国市場を熟知する台湾企業と技術力のある日本企業の連携の強みを指摘した。
　中台は昨年６月、事実上の自由貿易協定（ＦＴＡ）にあたる経済協力枠組み協定（ＥＣＦＡ）を締結しており、日本企業にとって、台湾企業との協力が容易になれば、中国市場に参入しやすくなる。情報通信技術や工作機械の分野では日台連携で中国に進出する例が出ている。
(試譯文)
On the 21st President Ma Yingjiu of Taiwan in his Presidential Office in Taipei city, in response to a joint interview with Oijawa Shoichi the supreme adviser to the Yomiuri Shimbun group headquarters and Ryoutsuyoshi Sugita the chairman of Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc., in regard to the economic cooperation between Taiwan and Japan that eyed on the joint advancement into the Chinese market that had grown up rapidly, described that "It is possible to institutionalize it more", and disclosed the thinking regarding the need to conclude an Agreement on the Protection of Investment etc.
President Ma described that "(For Taiwan and Japan) the success rate would rise if they enter the market by cooperation", and pointed out the strong point for cooperation was that the Taiwanese enterprise was well informed of the Chinese market while Japanese firm was in technology.
China and Taiwan last June concluded an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) that was a de facto Free Trade Agreement (FTA); for the Japanese firms it became easier to cooperate with a Taiwanese enterprise, and it became easier to enter the Chinese market. For Taiwan and Japan, the example that came out regarding the joint advancement into China was to cooperate in the fields of information-communication technology and in machine tools.

It seems that because of the ECFA, the economic tie between Taiwan and Japan will grow in the future.