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Guanxi  is the Chinese manifestation of a universal phenomenon – the relationship between gift-givers and gift-takers – extended to include its antagonistic but symbiotic relationship with the state. As China’s market has been increasingly integrated into the global economic system,  guanxi  has been adapted, so that similar practices can now be seen in areas such as international business and trade, and industrial relations. In this article, I investigate how  guanxi  has played a part in the 2010 Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between China and Taiwan. Even though the ECFA has served more as an ongoing framework for negotiations than a final agreement, it was highly controversial in Taiwan right from the opening of negotiations in 2008. Taiwan’s reactions to the ECFA reflect how the Chinese government leveraged a  guanxi  strategy to facilitate the talks. This  guanxi  strategy shows that the ECFA not only represents economic cooperation, but also works to promote political integration. News reports and official documents in Taiwan highlighted two different reactions to the ECFA there. While one strand approved of the framework and accepted the implied obligations, the other, especially within civil society, saw  guanxi  as an external threat that needed to be counterbalanced.

Facilitating the Market with a Gift: The Politics of the ECFA between China and Taiwan (2008–2016)