Photo courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsA total of 730,351 calls were made to China that year, with 767,606 received calls. It was the same with phone calls, which were routed via the US, Japan and Singapore. CALLING ABOUT TIANANMENMuch of the news regarding the phone calls revolved around Tiananmen. “It appears that China regrets its prior eagerness to open up direct links with Taiwan … These calls from Taiwan to China are now exposing the truth and creating a huge headache for the CCP,” the United Daily News stated. “I started calling around 11am and got through to a relative serving in a government agency on my fifth attempt,” one reader told the China Times.