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...first native Taiwanese to head the Kuomintang, is expected to reduce government intervention in the economy and continue an expansion of civil liberties in the wake of last year's end to martial law. Taiwan relaxed a ban on travel to the mainland last year, but other major initiatives toward Beijing seem unlikely. Lee last week vowed to "make no compromise of any kind" with Beijing...
United will actually lower the number of miles needed to get a free ticket (20,000 miles for a coach seat, vs. the current 35,000). But those tickets will allow travel only during certain times and within the mainland U.S. The airline will sharply increase the number of miles needed to fly at peak times to more desirable tourist destinations (a whopping 240,000 for two first-class seats to Hawaii, vs. the current...
According to Gromyko, Mao suggested in 1958 that the U.S. could be induced to invade the mainland, possibly after an American nuclear attack, whereupon Chinese forces would retreat into the hinterlands and lure U.S. troops into a lethal trap. Mao suggested, Gromyko says, that the Soviet Union then join the assault on U.S. troops "with all its forces," an apparent reference to nuclear arms, which China did not possess until 1964. Gromyko writes of being "extremely surprised . . . because of the lightness with which he proclaimed a schedule of American aggression against China with the use of nuclear weapons...
...goal of reorganizing the country's three legislative bodies. Lee's need to play consensus politics may prevent him from moving rapidly on that and other unfinished business. The new leader will almost certainly continue the policy, begun only last November, of allowing Taiwan residents to travel to the mainland to visit family members. So far, more than 11,000 former mainlanders have traveled legally to China, and thousands more have made the trip covertly...
...test of Lee's China policy will be his handling of trade and travel ties to Hong Kong as the British colony prepares to revert to mainland rule in 1997. According to an agreement signed by Britain and China in 1984, Hong Kong will be allowed to retain its capitalist system for 50 years, as well as a large measure of local control. Many Taiwanese will be watching Hong Kong's < experience for guidance on how to handle their future relations with the mainland. While a Taiwanese reunification even as tenuous as Hong Kong's is by no means inevitable...