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...until last July, that is, when Taipei and Beijing agreed to start direct flights between Taiwan and China and open up tourism on the island to 3,000 Chinese visitors every day. The direct flights were a relief to the four million Taiwanese who travel to China every year, cutting a seven-hour slog to Shanghai, which had to be made through a third city like Hong Kong, to an 80-minute trip. The floodgates opened the other way, too: at first, a trickle of some 200 Chinese tourists each day in August, and now, seven months later, a pouring...
...with which, eventually, they hope to be "united." Only 5% of Taiwanese support unification, according to a March survey, with a full 20% encouraging the island to push for independence from China. "The Chinese always avoid taking pictures with the Taiwanese flag," says Political Scientist Yang Tai-Shuenn of Taipei's Chinese Culture University. "That may insult the Taiwanese people." One 63-year old tourist caused a stir in the Taiwanese media by carving his name and Chinese town in large characters on a rock on a famous stretch of Taiwan's coast. Eventually, the Chinese media shamed into making...
...clerk, who declined to give her name, said. "Politics does not need to be decisive. We can all get along." President Ma evidently agrees. "We want to make friends with them," Ma said last year when he was promoting the concept of Chinese tourism to his constituents. Today in Taipei, many seem to think Ma was right. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea to invite the Chinese to eat, shop, and be merry...
With reporting by Yang Lin / Beijing, Coco Masters / Tokyo, Madhur Singh / Delhi, and Natalie Tso / Taipei...
China's Gift to Taiwan: Fake Pandas! Taipei Times "Taiwan-China relations were dealt a severe setback yesterday when it was found that Taipei Zoo's "pandas" are not what they seem. Zookeepers discovered at feeding time yesterday that the two pandas are in fact Wenzhou brown forest bears that had been dyed to create the panda's distinctive black-and-white appearance. The Taipei Zoo's head of ursidae ex-procynidae care, Connie Liu... said she became suspicious when the pandas Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan began to spend almost all of their waking hours having sex. Pandas...