By Stacy Hsu / Staff reporterAcademics yesterday called for calm amid concern that Beijing’s 31 incentives for Taiwanese could trigger a brain drain and industrial migration, saying the trend is global. The association is the only civic group focused on Hong Kong and Macau affairs and exchanges, and has been deemed as blue-leaning. Beijing’s incentives might attract young Taiwanese, but they do not necessarily mean they would start to identify with the Chinese government or want to stay there permanently. Citing as an example the higher education industry, one of the sectors targeted by the 31 incentives, Tseng said that experienced Taiwanese professors might be deterred by the Chinese education system, in which promotion hinges more on subjective than objective factors. “Otherwise, how is the government going to deal with future politically motivated economic incentives that might set support for the ‘one China’ principle as a precondition?”

Source: Taipei Times March 16, 2018 15:56 UTC