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Beijing courts Taiwan’s farmers, firms, and youth

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At this year’s Straits Forum – held in Xiamen, Fujian on June 13 – Beijing delivered two messages. The first was the familiar hard line on Taiwan. Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Huning called on Taiwanese to (Xinhua 1):

“Resolutely oppose ‘Taiwan independence’ separatism and foreign inter...