Grieving seems to ease the relations between the Taiwan Strait (from the China Post):
“The bereaved family members of five Chinese tourists who died in a bus crash in central Taiwan earlier this week held a memorial services and cremated the bodies yesterday for the trip home.
Officials from the Taipei-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), the Tourism […]
… according to Margot Chen via her comment at the Taipeitimes:
“With Taiwan still very much enmeshed in the political conflict between supporters of President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and followers of former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairman Shih Ming-teh’s (施明德) anti-Chen campaign, Taiwanese haven’t had much time to concern themselves with affairs in the rest of […]
There is a lot going on in Taiwan these days. China is watching carefully (from the N.Y. Times):
“China blasted Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian on Wednesday for a plan to change the constitution and rename the island, moves Beijing would consider a formal declaration of independence of territory it claims as its own.
Chen’s […]
In cases of emergency there can be direct cross-strait flights (from the Taipeitimes):
“A cross-strait medical charter flight carrying 42 passengers yesterday arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.
The flight, which departed from the Yanji Airport in China’s Jilin Province, consisted of 14 Taiwanese tourists who had been injured in China, 12 of their family members and […]
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