Trade agreement crisis: Jack Ma blames the DPP for stubbornness in service agreement disputes

President Ma Ying-jeou (Ma Ying-jeou) rushed to target the cross-strait trade in services agreement as the reason for the continued student-led protest movement over the dispute over the review process of the agreement triggered by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the legislature. In an interview with Ma Yun last Friday last week, James Myers, president of the Beijing branch of the Presidential Palace and Economics Magazine, made remarks on the fourth day to the legislative tone occupied by the demonstrators. When asked why there was such a controversy over the signing of the agreement in June last year, Ma Ying-jeou said that any matter involving cross-strait relations will cause a certain degree of competition in the country because people have not yet reached a consensus on how to develop relations with China. Ma Ying-jeou said that in the past few months, after clarifying the misunderstanding among the citizens that the agreement will open up the job market among Chinese workers, the real situation of threats to national security and jobs that are beneficial to China has become clear. ``The current situation is developing because there have been disputes in the process of deliberation and approval of the agreement by the Legislative Yuan,' Ma Yun said. Earlier this month, when the DPP presided over the review of the agreement, it did not allow the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) congressmen to express their opinions. When the KMT was responsible for the review, the DPP occupied the rostrum, Ma said. 'In the end, the KMT decided that they will follow the regulations and be deemed to have completed the review,' Ma Yun said, referring to the meeting last week, chaired by legislator Zhang Qingzhong (Zhang Qingzhong) on u200bu200bMonday. At the meeting, Zhang only took 30 seconds to announce that the agreement had been cleared by the committee for review and handed over to the floor for a vote on the second reading, but in fact no articles have been reviewed by the committee. 'I believe that such disputes regarding legislative review should be resolved through the internal consultation mechanism of the legislature,' said Ma Yun. Ma Yun said that under the trade agreement is the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) follow-up agreement signed between the countries and China in 2010, which will also cover the trade in goods, the agreement on the mechanism and agreement to resolve commercial disputes'economic cooperation. 'If the agreement has not been approved, this will affect the signing of an agreement on trade in goods with China, said Jack Ma. 'The international community will find it very strange that Taiwan, and Qingzhuo's regional economic integration, which is interested in joining, is a procedural problem. Our sincerity and determination will be questioned,' he added. In addition, Prime Minister Jiang Yihua (Jiang Yihua) yesterday urged cabinet members to seize the opportunity to increase communication with citizens and students of the trade agreement. Executive Yuan spokesperson Sun Lijiqun (Sun Liqun) told the post-cabinet meeting press conference. Sun said that cabinet members should use every opportunity to explain that the agreement is open to the public, such as media interviews, student meetings on campus, or invitations from private groups.