China's 'silent treatment' of Taiwan closer to ending

By Jonathan Adams
Mon Apr 14, 4:00 AM ET

Taipei, Taiwan - A landmark meeting Saturday between Taiwan's vice president-elect and China's president Hu Jintao has raised hopes for the first cross-strait talks in a decade. But analysts say many pitfalls lie ahead – and any breakthrough likely to be economic, not political.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080414/wl_csm/odance

兩岸七月起直航 年底天天飛 ( English: initial phase of non-charter direct commercial flights across Taiwan Straits will begin in July,implementation of regular daily flight schedules by year end ).

http://www.worldjournal.com/wj-topic...sc_seq_id=4136


Through negotiation,Taiwan anticipates 1 million mainland Chinese tourists a year and other " win-win" economic engagments with China.I must say Taiwan people are very much influenced by US,“ It’s the economy, stupid. ” as they voted KMT back in power this past March 22,2008.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_the_economy,_stupid


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