Noneconomic Aspects Of A Us Taiwan Free Trade Agreement

Noneconomic considerations for bilateral or regional trade agreements can be notoriously difficult to measure. In the case of US-Taiwan relations, one common factor defines the two countries' security alliance: China. In this policy brief, we discuss a new metric we recently developed that uses Chinese propaganda as a gauge of noneconomic factors underlying the interest in closer bilateral trade ties between the United States and Taiwan. Our findings indicate a closer security alliance between the United States and Taiwan, shedding light on a noneconomic factor in favor of a free agreement between the two economies.