WATER SUPPLY: The Water Resources Agency said the contract does not require a commencement ceremony, which the MAC repeatedly asked to be postponed
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 05, 2018
By: Chung Li-hua / Staff reporter
A system to supply water to Kinmen from China’s Fujian Province is to begin operations
The Tienpu Reservoir is pictured in Kinmen yesterday. Photo: CNA
today with two simultaneous ceremonies, following a national security official’s remarks yesterday that China is trying to split Taiwanese apart using carrot-and-stick tactics.
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) late last month asked the Kinmen County Government to delay its ceremony after Beijing pressured the East Asian Olympic Committee into revoking Taichung’s right to host the first East Asian Youth Games next year.
The county government decided to hold the ceremony as scheduled, but said that it would tone down the event’s political effects by downgrading it to a “ritual.”
While the central government does not plan to send any officials to the event, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office Minister Liu Jieyi (劉結一) is reportedly planning to attend the counterpart ceremony in Fujian’s Jinjiang, along with nearly 100 members of the Chinese media. [FULL STORY]
