Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/01
By: Chai Sze-chia and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, March 1 (CNA) The government will keep close watch on whether Beijing will fulfill
Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正)
a recently unveiled plan to offer a slew of economic incentives to Taiwanese living in China, the deputy head of the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said Thursday.
The Beijing-based Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) announced a day earlier a set of 31 incentives to China-based Taiwanese nationals in an attempt to attract Taiwanese enterprises, associations and artists to develop there.
In response, Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正), deputy head and spokesman of the MAC, Taiwan’s top agency in charge of China policy, said at a regular press conference that the 31 measures proposed by Beijing are not legally binding and that the MAC will watch to see how China’s central and local governments will implement the measures.
The Chinese administration has not yet enacted enforcement rules of the measures and the initiatives could be eventually reduced to mere lip service paid by China for psychological warfare purposes, according to Chiu. [FULL STORY]
