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Taiwan's Uneasy China Embrace

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Apr 27, 2009
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Lin Mei-li, 51, has been driving a taxi in Kaohsiung, Taiwan's second city, for 13 years but never carried a mainlander until this year. Now they are filling her taxi and her pockets, although she complains that they are impolite and they smell.

The start of direct daily flights from China to Taiwan last December has brought the largest influx of mainlan…

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