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Nationalists bid to retake Chinese mainland — with money
HONG KONG, Jan 25 : Forty years after the Chinese Nationalists lost a civil war to Communist forces and fled to Taiwan, their government is bidding to retake the mainland — this time with money, not missiles, reports AP.
Since the early 1980s. Taiwan's businessmen have poured billions of dollars into Indirect trade and investment Into China's prosperous southern provinces, mostly through Hong Kong.
In the latest move to buy the hearts and minds of their mainland compatriots. Taiwan is aggressively seeking a higher profile in China through Hong Kong, the British colony that reverts to Chinese rule tn
1997.
Taiwan has encouraged more businesses to set up shop in the territory to channel indirect trade to and from China. Since August. Taiwan has permitted the first three staterun banks to open offices in the territory.
"Hong Kong is like a pair of gloves. Taiwan wears one and China wears the other so that they can shake without actually touching." said Kenneth Lal. managing director of the Taipei Trade Center in Hong
s not openly stated, but Taiwan wants to gradually expand its influence In China through trade, investment and free ideas," said Lee Yee, editor of Nineties magazine, a
Hong Kong-based political monthly.
Taiwan has positioned itself for this big sales pitch with four decades of explosive, export-oriented growth that turned it Into the world's I5th-largest economy, with almost 80 billion dollar in foreign reserves.
The rocky, resourcelcss island was a sleepy former Japanese agricultural colony when the Nationalists took it over in 1949.
Taiwan has experienced economic growth for four decades, but exports didn't really take off until the 1970s. Between 1971 and 1991. its Gross National Product jumped from 6.6 billion dollar to 180 billion, while per capita In-
come for the island's 15 million people shot up from 443 dollar to 8,800 annually.
In contrast, per capita income for first six months of 1991 was 388 US dollar in China's cities, and 122 US dollar In the country side.
Taiwan’s newfound standing as a trading partner for China is a dramatic turnaround that contrasts with its Three No's — which outlawed negotiation, compromise and even contact with the Communists.
After the Communists opened China's economy to outside Ues in 1979. Taiwan businessmen who wanted to trade there had to brave the threat of prison sentences.
Deals were cut in Hong
Kong and no Chinese visas were stamped into Taiwanese Cssports. Everything was very sh-hush.
Officially. Taipei still bars any direct contact or trade with its enemy across the Taiwan Straits because the rival governments both claim to represent a united China.
But since the Ascension of a more liberal. Western-educated leadership in the mid-1980s. Taiwan has renounced Its 1948 pledge to Invade the mainland and eased trade restrictions wtth China.
The results have been phenomenal. In 1990, two-way trade rerouted through Taiwan's 2.600 registered companies in Hong Kong reached four billion dollar.
That figure hit an estimated 5.5 billion dollar in 1991.
Taiwan's indirect investment In China is approaching three billion dollar.
Some politicians warn that getting too involved with Hong Kong and China renders Taiwan vulnerable to pressure from Beijing, especially as| 1997 nears. '
Yet others contend that Increased visibility through economic muscle Is Taipei's best long-strategy.
"Improving people's living standards can change people's attitudes toward culture. poll tics, everything." said La1. "Of course, this is what the Communists are most afraid of.'