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Taiwan slams China’s visa-on-arrival move as hollow political stunt
The Daily Guardian
|October 17, 2025
China’s latest attempt to expand its single-entry visa-on-arrival policy to Taiwanese travellers has been dismissed by Taipei as an empty and politically driven manoeuvre.
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Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said the measure is of “little practical interest” to most Taiwanese and represents a weak effort by Chinese officials to project activity in the absence of substantive cross-strait engagement, as reported by The Taipei Times.
This story is from the October 17, 2025 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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