TAIPEI ¨C Taiwan is warily watching whether China could seek to try and exert economic control over sensitive front-line Taiwanese islands in a key development plan being discussed in Beijing this week, officials familiar with the matter said.
China¡¯s ruling Communist Party, at its closed-door meeting ending Thursday known as a plenum, is going to discuss, among other things, the country¡¯s 15th five-year development plan, which will formally begin next year and be unveiled in detail at March¡¯s annual meeting of parliament.
Two officials briefed on the matter said that Taiwan is paying particular attention to whether the new five-year plan makes any mention of deepening economic integration with the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen islands that sit just off China¡¯s coast.
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