Regulations and Government
Taiwan’s Good Technical Offer Is Affected By Politics
Taiwan is keen to develop its aerospace industry through exports but has China watching its every move.

Taiwan’s two major aerospace manufacturing organizations are renewing their marketing efforts abroad, following their change of status in 2014. The Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) was privatized, with the government retaining just 39 percent. The previously-secretive National Chung-Shang Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) was made an administrative corporation by the government, and given the freedom to export and forge foreign partnerships. Both AIDC and NCSIST have attractive technology to offer at competitive cost–but their ambitions are inevitably affected by Taiwan’s complicated cross-straits relationship with mainland China.