China, Taiwan to Officially Discuss Opening Island to Mainland Tourists

After years of back-channel talks, China and Taiwan will officially sit down this September to discuss removing the ban on travel from the Chinese mainland to the Island, according to an Asia Times story by Ting-I Tsai. The potential talks come after China’s founding of the Cross-Strait Tourism Association, and Taiwan’s development of the Taiwan Strait Traveling and Tourism Association, two ostensibly private organizations created to handle the negotiations. China, a rising tourist power, currently allows its citizens to travel to just 81 countries, according to the Times.

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