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Fage No. 7 of 12 pages

The Media

20.

This

With a deficit of over $8 m. in 1980, communist film

circles are preparing yet another plan to reduce losses.

envisages major staff reductions and the formation of an

ostensibly neutral production company to attract talented

performers and to gain a foothold in the lucrative Taiwan

market.

21.

Having had a profitable trading year, the communist

publishing industry will not receive a subsidy from China in

1981.

United Front

22.

In addition to the visit of a Taiwan team to take part

in a handball tournament in Hong Kong in April (para 19 February

1981 Report) the NCNA is engineering similar subsequent events

in which teams from China and Taiwan will compete at basketball,

athletics and table tennis. If these materialise, they will be

the first occasions on which teams from China and Taiwan will

have met in the same competition in Hong Kong.

23.

Communist influence and activities in the general sporting

world continue: basketball and judo teams have been invited to

compete in China later this year, the communist controlled Hong

Kong Table Tennis Association is to send a team to the World

Championships in Yugoslavia, and the Canoe Union (also communist

controlled) has held a dinner at which senior NCNA officials were

the guests of honour.

/para 24.

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