Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-08-06
Taiwan’s outlying island of Kinmen began importing water from China on Sunday, but
Taiwan says future electricity lines and a bridge need to be carefully evaluated.
The Kinmen County Government held a ceremony for the new water links on Sunday despite calls from Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council to delay it. That’s because Beijing pressured the East Asian Olympic Committee to revoke the central city of Taichung’s rights to hold the East Asian Youth Games next year.
The new water link is the result of an agreement that Taiwan and China signed in 2016 to provide Kinmen with water for 30 years. Kinmen is to import an average of 34,000 tons of water from China each day.
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