BRAIN DRAIN? While the migration of talent and industry is not an unusual trend amid globalization, the government should not let its guard down, academics said
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 17, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
Academics yesterday called for calm amid concern that Beijing’s 31 incentives for
National Taiwan Normal University political science professor Fan Shih-ping, second left, speaks at a forum organized by the Friends of Hong Kong and Macau Association in Taipei yesterday to discuss China’s 31 incentives to attract Taiwanese. Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times
Taiwanese could trigger a brain drain and industrial migration, saying the trend is global.
They made the remarks at a forum organized by the Friends of Hong Kong and Macau Association in Taipei yesterday morning, just hours before the Executive Yuan put forward eight countermeasures against the incentives designed to draw Taiwanese talent and corporations to China.
The association is the only civic group focused on Hong Kong and Macau affairs and exchanges, and has been deemed as blue-leaning.
However, on Sunday, it elected Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) of the Democratic Progressive Party as its new chairman. [FULL STORY]
