June 2, 2011
Beginning later this month, a maximum of 500 individual Chinese tourists could be allowed to visit Taiwan daily, the Mainland Affairs Council said yesterday without providing further details of the pr
Beginning later this month, a maximum of 500 individual Chinese tourists could be allowed to visit Taiwan daily, the Mainland Affairs Council said yesterday without providing further details of the process.
Chinese residents from Shanghai and Beijing will be eligible to visit Taiwan as independent tourists, with residents from Xiamen also likely to be able to apply for such visits once the two sides finalize the procedures, the council said.
2021/02/27 12:05 (Wikimedia Commons photo) KAOHSIUNG (Taiwan News) In April 2000, Kuomintang (KMT) legislator Su Chi (蘇起) used a phrase that has haunted cross-strait relations between Taiwan and communist China ever since. Su was chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council at that time and in the wake of the 2000 elections, Taiwan was about to transfer power as a result of a democratic decision made by its people for the first time. Tensions with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were understandably high and before the KMT handed over power to the DPP for the first time, Su used a phrase that he hoped would ease those tensions. He talked for the first time about the 1992 consensus.