As China seeks to lure Taiwanese workers, Taiwan has an opportunity to educate people back home about what life is really like in a Communist dictatorship.

Taiwan News
Date: 2018/08/16
By: David Spencer, Taiwan News, Contributing Writer

KAOHSIUNG (Taiwan News) — China has once more ratcheted up its efforts to try and lure more Taiwanese workers across the Straits, in their latest economic assault on Taiwan.

But a fascinating report by the BBC’s Traditional Mandarin language news service has illustrated how exposure to life in China can, ironically, boost Taiwanese workers love of their homeland.

Earlier this year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched their so-called 31 initiatives, a program of measures designed to attract talented Taiwanese workers to China and so attack the Taiwanese economy by increasing the issue of brain-drain, which is already a real concern here.

Then, earlier this month, the CCP’s Taiwan Affairs Office announced that Taiwanese workers would no longer need to apply for a special employment permit in order to work in China. In keeping with the Communist myth that Taiwan and China are part of the same country, they have decided to remove the bureaucratic employment barriers that previously existed between the two countries.     [FULL  STORY]