Measures include making it easier for Taiwanese people to live and work in China, but the plan comes amid major military exercises
China’s government has unveiled a “new path towards integrated development” with, including proposals to make it easier for Taiwanese people to live, study and work in China.
“The move is aimed at deepening cross-strait integrated development in all fields and advancing the peaceful reunification of the motherland,” said official state media outlet,The Global Times, a hawkish state-backed news outlet, described the document as “equivalent to outlining the future development blueprint of Taiwan island”.
On Tuesday, Japan’s defence ministry detected two flotillas of eight warships sailing through the Miyako Strait south of Okinawa, on a course that analysts said could converge with the Shandong-led group. Another 36 war plane sorties were detected on Wednesday morning, Taiwan’s defence ministry said.
In January, Taiwan will have its next presidential election, and it is widely expected that Beijing will seek to influence voters during the campaign, as it has done in previous years. It is most opposed to a victory by the ruling Democratic Progressive party , which is the most strident in asserting Taiwan’s status as a sovereign nation. Vice-president Lai Ching-te, the DPP’s presidential candidate, is the present frontrunner.
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