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...MA: Mainland China and Taiwan should not court and win over recognition of the other sides' allies. But we should certainly strengthen the existing relationships with our allies. That is totally justified. It is our international duty to help countries that need our support. But we have to do it according to international standards. You have to distinguish between purely giving money to somebody and developmental...
...MA: The so-called "checkbook diplomacy" was prompted primarily by the vicious circle created by the almost unlimited contest between mainland China and Taiwan in the international arena. We shouldn't give [allies] cash only for political purposes. The most important thing is that we attack the problem at its root: cross-Strait relations. That's why we want to use the current improvement of relations with the mainland to extend that to the international arena. If we are able to have a truce in the diplomatic area, both of us will not try to court and solicit and then...
...MA: We have just done a very small step by allowing charter flights. That has to be improved. If you fly from Shanghai to Taipei you still have to fly over the airspace of Hong Kong. The air controllers of Taiwan and the mainland are still unable to talk to each other. Now we have to change that, and we may be able to change that in the next couple months so that we can save a lot of fuel and time, from 2.5 hours between Taipei and Shanghai to only 80 minutes. Then we have to allow charter cargo...
...MA: This is more difficult in the sense that many international organizations require statehood as the basis for admission. But for organizations like the World Trade Organization, which could take in countries under the name of a separate customs territory, we did exactly that. We were admitted in 2002 with a very awkward name: Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan. Chinese Taipei for short. This is a new model. We are trying to get into the World Health Assembly. The first obstacle is the name we are going to use, pretty much like WTO, we're not using Taiwan or Republic...
...MA: I don't see any basic change of my ability to do that, because the cross-Strait policy of mine is the most popular part among people here. What we are trying to do is to make the investment climate and the management environment in Taiwan much more flexible and free. So we're trying to open up, to deregulate, to liberalize as much as possible. All of these measures are intended to make Taiwan a more competitive area in our part of the world...