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Taiwan rebuffs China’s desire for high-speed rail line across strait

By Joel Gehrke
Published September 14, 2023 10:07pm ET
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Taiwan rebuffs China’s desire for high-speed rail line across strait
China wants to build a high-speed rail line to Taiwan, the island democracy that Beijing intends to subjugate, but officials in Taipei sound less than enthusiastic about the idea. “If the mainland side cannot effectively improve its internal economic problems, the relevant measures of integrating and benefiting Taiwan will be unrealistic,” Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council […]

China wants to build a high-speed rail line to Taiwan, the island democracy that Beijing intends to subjugate, but officials in Taipei sound less than enthusiastic about the idea.

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