28 January 2012

Editorial: (China, Taiwan) Backdoor Reunification?

By Jens Kastner

From sometime this year, Taiwanese citizens as “natural persons or families”will be able to register certain types of small businesses in a number of Chinese cities and provinces as “individual industrial and commercial households,” China's Taiwan Affairs Office, the organ responsible for Taiwan-related policies, recently announced. As the move is most likely meant as a pilot project that will eventually be extended – to many Taiwanese facing negative growth in real wages and relatively high unemployment at home – it's an offer that could sooner rather than later become attractive enough to be considered.

Read the full story at The Diplomat