The book covers the legal, economic, socio-political and international aspects of economic integration and the contending forces of national identity and economic interests after the economies between Taiwan and China are integrated and the trading bloc is emerging across the Taiwan Strait.

Scale is universally acknowledged as important in the determination of national comparative advantage. Paradoxically, attempts to associate empiri - cal measures of scale economies and international trade volume have proved largely inconclusive, and often have been found to sport the “wrong”...