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Made in Taiwan: 3 Funds for the Next Asian Market Bubble

The party with power in the Taiwanese legislature and now the presidency is the KMT; they are not encouraging reunification, they are just stepping back from the pro-independence policies of the former president Chen Shui Bian and his party. The KMT stance on reunification is and has been for a while: they will consider it if the mainland becomes a fully democratic nation, which is unlikely to happen in the near future. The KMT default position while the Mainland remains communist is to keep the status quo, that is not to push for independence nor to acquiesce to the Mainland's calls for reunification, and increase trade and travel links which benefit both countries. I agree with the premise of the article that the new administration will bode well for the economy of Taiwan, with the caveat that if for some reason hardliners in the PRC can hijack the agenda of the politburo they will push to advance the reunification timetable (and I think the chance of this has decreased with the election of the new Taiwanese president Ma Jing Jou).