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Taiwan urged China not to boycott southern city: report
18.10.09
TAIPEI — Taiwan has urged China not to boycott its second city after it hosted the Dalai Lama and screened a film about an activist accused by Beijing of inciting unrest, a report said Sunday.
The vice-chairman of Taiwan's quasi-official Straits Exchange Foundation made the appeal to his Chinese counterpart last week during an official visit to the mainland, state Central News Agency said.
Kao Koong-lian told Zheng Lizhong that "boycotting Kaohsiung city was not smart", Kao was quoted by the agency as saying.
He also said that exiled Uighur Rebiya Kadeer had become better known after Beijing apparently ruled that mainland tourist groups should not go to the southern city in light of the screening of the film.
Zheng did not respond to Kao's remarks or say when Beijing would put an end to the de facto travel ban, the report said.
Beijing made no official announcement but hotels in Kaohsiung said they had thousands of cancellations from mainland tourists.
The screening of the Kadeer biopic came after the Dalai Lama, whom Beijing has labelled a "splittist", visited the south of Taiwan in August in the aftermath of a killer typhoon.
The Tibetan spiritual leader said repeatedly his visit was "non-political," but China, which regards Taiwan as part of its territory, voiced anger and cancelled several delegations to the island.
Beijing has also labelled Kadeer a "criminal" and accused her of inciting ethnic violence in China's far-west Xinjiang region in July that led to the deaths of nearly 200 people.
Taipei-Beijing ties have otherwise improved markedly since Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang party came to power last year.
"Over the past year, because of our efforts, the Taiwan Strait has become a boulevard of peace and prosperity from a killing field," Ma said Sunday during a meeting of the ruling Kuomintang.
"We hope the cross-Strait ties will continue moving forward on the track."
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