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Direct Flights from Taiwan to Mainland China

Posted on June 13, 2008

In the mid-1980s, Taiwanese businessmen, at least those of a cautious nature, were too frightened to participate in the triangle trade . That business moved product under the radar from Taiwan into China, when direct trade was prohibited with major consequences for Taiwanese (imprisonment and fines) and Chinese (who knows? execution, probably). An American in my 20s believing myself protected by the shield of my passport and immune by virtue of reckless youth from any potential danger, I floated the idea to friends that I should set up shop in Hong Kong doing precisely ...

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