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RD REPORT
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31 AUGUST
MKB 020/1
TAIWAN NO 6
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AUGUST 1989
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The pace of developments between Taiwan and the mainland has slowed but by no means stopped.
Taiwan's aggressive, and well funded, diplomacy continues to pay dividends in raising Taiwan's international profile. But Taiwan has been facing problems, especially with the US and other Pacific nations, over fishing.
Taiwan Vice Premier announces that there will be no withdrawal of organisations or personnel from Hong Kong after 1997.
The Kuomintang draws up its candidates list for the December elections as the campaigning begins to get under way.
Privatisation of state owned industries to go ahead. scandal involving the Minister of Justice.
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Trade (officially still indirect) between China and Taiwan reached a turnover of US $ 1.7 billion in the first 6 months of the year, an increase of 57.1%, although the rate slackened off in June, following the massacre on the mainland, and is likely to fall off further in the second half of the year. But Taiwan's contacts with the mainland continue to develop (although it was reported that a plan to allow mainland journalists to visit Taiwan had been shelved). Taiwan's first sports teams to visit since the crackdown. the men's and women's handball teams, arrived in Peking on 20 August, and a leading mainland table tennis player visited Taiwan. More significantly, the Director General of the Young China Party (one of the two political parties that had been allowed to co-exist with the Kuomintang during the period of Martial Law in Taiwan) visited Guangdong and was received by Governor Ye Xuanping on 1 September. There were also some further relaxations of the authorities' rules over contacts. Eminent mainlanders who were members of the Chinese Communist Party would, after all, be allowed to attend academic conferences in Taiwan, provided they declared their allegiance, and the age limit for aged mainlanders being allowed to settle in Taiwan was lowered from 75 to 70.
2 But it has not all been plain sailing. The Captain of the Kwangta, a Taiwan vessel which had been seized by the Chinese Customs in March, bnrought suit against them for Hong Kong $35 million in damages. A court in Zhuhai heard the case, but rejected it and ordered him to pay HK $45,000 in costs. For their part the Taiwan authorities detained seven mainland vessels on
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