"Although we don't really know what they might do, what we have heard via the press is that they don't want to bring any dispute settlement cases to the WTO," he said.
China does not want to internationalize what it considers a domestic relationship.
Sunny Chang (張耿銘), a Taiwan-ese lawyer who works on Beijing's arbitration commission (北京仲裁委員會), raised concerns over the legal footing of the move.
"The closed-door strategy may become an excuse for China to attack or embarrass Taiwan on the international economic stage," Chang said.
China would be on more solid legal ground than Taiwan if the issue was brought up under the WTO's dispute-resolution framework, he said.
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