Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/29
By: Lee Hsin-Yin and Wang Shu-fen

Taipei, Jan. 29 (CNA) Military aircraft will be used to transport Taiwanese in China

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home from Kinmen for the Lunar New Year holiday if both sides of the Taiwan Strait fail to reach a consensus on the controversial issue of the M503 route, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) said Monday.

Chen Chin-sheng (陳進生), director-general of the Department of Navigation and Aviation under the MOTC, said the ministry is prepared for the worst-case scenario, in which military aircraft will be used to fly Taiwanese home from outlying Kinmen County.

To board those flights, however, Taiwanese passengers will have to use the “mini-three links” mechanism established between the two sides in 2001, meaning that they will have to travel to Xiamen in Fujian Province first in order to take ferries to Kinmen.
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