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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - China and Taiwan have argued since the end of Covid-19 about when and how tourism from China to the island could resume, with each side blaming the other for it not yet fully returning. — Reuters pic
BEIJING, Jan 17 — China has begun preparations to resume group tours to Taiwan by residents of Shanghai and Fujian province in the near future, China’s culture and tourism and ministry said today.
China and Taiwan have argued since the end of Covid-19 about when and how tourism from China to the island could resume, with each side blaming the other for it not yet fully returning, adding to existing tensions between the two sides.
At his New Year’s news conference, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said he welcomed exchanges with China but wondered whether there was goodwill in return from Beijing, given what he described as their blocking of simple things like tourism.
China’s culture and tourism ministry said in a short statement that the resumption of group tours from Shanghai, as well as from Fujian province, which sits on the other side of the Taiwan Strait from the island, would happen soon.
It did not, however, give a date for the resumption of travel.
This was being done in order to further promote the normalisation of people-to-people exchanges and “enhance the interests and well-being of compatriots on both sides of the strait,” the ministry said.
There was no immediate reaction from Taiwan’s government, which rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims over the island.
Lai, whom Beijing calls a “separatist”, has offered talks with China but has been rejected. — AFP
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