Ma must consult public on ECFA

A year has passed since President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) began extolling the virtues of an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) his government intends to sign with China. What has this publicity campaign achieved? A cartoon strip by CoCo on March 17 answers that question quite well.

Perhaps the best approach to promote ECFA would have been for the president to travel around the country explaining the benefits in person, but the dialogue in CoCo’s cartoon reflects public distrust.

“I don’t believe a word Ma says,” one character says.

“But [Chinese Premier] Wen Jiabao (溫家寶) says the same things as Ma,” another says.

“That’s precisely why I don’t believe Ma,” the first person replies.

What better illustration could we have of just how badly the Ma administration’s publicity campaign has failed?

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