TAIWAN: China offers economic incentives

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Updated February 27, 2008 21:33:01

China has announced an invitation to Taiwan doctors and new economic sweeteners ahead of next month's presidential elections. China has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan since their split at the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 and has threatened to bring it back to the fold, by force if necessary. It has also offered the people of Taiwan a series of economic sweeteners while refusing to deal with its independence-minded President Chen Shui-bian.

Presenter: Sonja Heydeman
Speakers: Professor Wen-Hsien Chen, Graduate Institute of Taiwan History, National Chengchi University.

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