ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the substantial policymaking capacities of the state, the power structure of the China policy bureaucracy interagency conflicts, and differences within the elite concerning cross-Straits economic policy. It provides the bureaucratic politics model to analyze the conflicts and interagency bargaining involved in the making of Taiwan's economic policy toward China. The chapter begins with a discussion of the structural distribution of resources and authority in the sphere of China policy. It identifies the key players in the policymaking process and their interaction and describes the consensus-building activities. The chapter explains a discussion of the implications of the change in state capacity in Taiwan. The Mainland Affairs Council under the Executive Yuan is a formal administrative agency under the supervision of the premier. It is in charge of researching, planning, deliberating, coordinating, and to some extent implementing Taiwan's China policy and other related issues.
