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Taiwan plans to lift a ban preventing Chinese banks from investing in Taiwanese banks, Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission announced June 24. The move comes a day after Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin arrived in Shanghai to finalize a deal permitting Taiwan to participate in the 2010 World Expo — the island’s first such event since its 1971 departure from the United Nations.

Both announcements are small but interesting examples of Taiwan getting China to give it “international space.” Under its new administration, Taipei is toning down the independence rhetoric and moving closer to the mainland — in exchange for more freedom than it has enjoyed in recent years.

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