How Taiwan still hangs on to property in bits of China
Reverence for a pre-Communist leader may make China stay its hand
THERE ARE few places within China’s borders where displaying Taiwan’s national flag is allowed. One is the Sun Yat-sen Memorial House, a museum in Macau where more than a dozen Taiwanese standards are on display. Some are near the entrance and visible to pedestrians outside. There are also two enormous posters that declare Taiwan “the Heart of Asia” (a Taiwanese tourism logo). In a reading room one finds newspapers and magazines published by Taiwan’s government.
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This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Where Sun never sets”
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