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Beijing restructures Taiwan Affairs Office with slimmed down public functions

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Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) is going underground. On May 26, the TAO quietly updated its website to reveal a new org structure. The headline: The TAO has ditched descriptive names for its bureaus, like the "Economics Bureau" or "News Bureau," and replaced them with anonymous numbered desig...



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