辯護權為刑事被告之重要權利，其保障可為刑事訴訟現代化之指標。雖中國大陸2012年刑事訴訟法之修正已朝人權保障目標邁出大步，值得肯定，惟其保障程度，仍與臺灣地區所累積之法制成果有一段差距。本文探討中國大陸有關辯護權之修正後，主張雙方應循兩會協商途徑，就兩岸人民涉及刑事案件時之辯護權保障另訂協議，以期臺灣人民在中國大陸涉案時能受到更完整的權利保障；亦可依國際公約與平等互惠原則，要求符合我方法制之保障。

The right to counsel is a fundamental issue regarding the protection of human rights. How a country protects the right to counsel reflects its civilization. Although the PRC amended its Criminal Procedure Code in 2012, and the protection of the right to counsel has seen improvement, there still exists a gap between the PRC and the ROC. After reviewing the 2012 amendments to the PRC Criminal Procedure Code in regard to the right to counsel, this study suggests that the ROC government should request that the Cross-Strait Anti-Criminal Cooperation Agreement be revised to protect the right to counsel of the Taiwanese people when involved in the criminal process in China. Before the Agreement is revised, the ROC government should ask the PRC authorities to provide Taiwanese criminal defendants the same degree of protection in terms of the right to counsel as they would receive in Taiwan.