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Viewing cable 07GUANGZHOU1265, KMT Stumps for Votes at Dongguan TBA Celebration

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07GUANGZHOU1265 2007-12-04 08:00 2011-08-23 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Consulate Guangzhou
VZCZCXRO2889
OO RUEHCN RUEHGH RUEHVC
DE RUEHGZ #1265/01 3380800
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 040800Z DEC 07
FM AMCONSUL GUANGZHOU
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 6710
INFO RUEHOO/CHINA POSTS COLLECTIVE
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHDC
RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RUEKJCS/DIA WASHDC
RHHMUNA/HQ USPACOM HONOLULU HI
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 GUANGZHOU 001265 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/CM AND EAP/TC 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PGOV EINV CH TW
SUBJECT: KMT Stumps for Votes at Dongguan TBA Celebration 
 
 
(U) This document is sensitive but unclassified.  Please protect 
accordingly. 
 
1. (SBU) Summary:  Clearly Dongguan in Guangdong Province - China's 
furniture capital, a city of 7-8 million people with over 6,000 
Taiwan businesses - is rooting for Ma Ying-jeou and the Kuomintang 
in the 2008 Presidential elections in Taiwan.  The 14th anniversary 
of the Dongguan Taiwan Businessmen Association (TBA) November 30 was 
a lavish celebration of what one attendee called a "positive" 
approach to cross-Strait ties; Ma Yi-nan, Ma Ying-jeou's elder 
sister, delivered a "check" to be cashed by Taiwan business on the 
mainland, calling for movement toward the three direct links within 
a year of Ma's assuming the presidency.  KMT Vice Chair Chiang 
Pin-kun encouraged Dongguan's business leaders to participate in the 
upcoming Taiwan elections; other mainland officials, including the 
director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of Economic Development, 
called for attendees to strengthen cross-Strait ties.  End summary. 
 
2. (U) Leaders of Taiwan's KMT, Taiwan business leaders from across 
China, and Chinese government officials attended the Dongguan TBA's 
extravagant celebration of its 14th anniversary on November 30. 
Banners waving, businesspeople a-marching to the tune of slightly 
martial music, salutes and sashes a-plenty, the event featured the 
installation of a new chairman - furniture and real estate magnate 
Andrew Yeh replacing furniture and real estate magnate Samuel Kuo. 
The Dongguan TBA is the largest in China with over 3,600 members out 
of 6,000 Taiwan-invested enterprises in the city.  Taiwan 
enterprises in Dongguan account for as much as ten percent of the 
total number on the mainland by some estimates - and on their minds 
this time around were new mainland regulations that could force some 
of them to relocate production lines elsewhere as the PRC seeks to 
move toward higher-technology, upstream business operations in the 
Pearl River Delta. 
 
KMT's Election Campaign Extends to Dongguan 
------------------------------------------- 
 
3. (SBU) During the celebration, Ma Yi-nan, KMT Presidential 
Candidate Ma Ying-jeou's elder sister, presented a symbolic check 
signed by Ma Ying-jeou and his KMT running-mate Vincent Siew.  The 
symbolic check, to be cashed upon Ma Ying-jeou's election, is a 
promise to fully implement the three direct links within one year of 
taking office.  Included as well would be weekend charter flights 
and a bilateral aviation agreement.  Ma Yi-nan was accompanied at 
the event by KMT Vice Chair Chiang Pin-kun, KMT Legislator Chu 
Feng-Chih, and New Party Chair Yok Mu-ming.  No representatives from 
Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) attended - nor does it 
seem they would have been all that welcome. 
 
4. (SBU) KMT Vice Chair Chiang Pin-kun, who was in Dongguan for his 
third TBA anniversary meeting, described the next year as a critical 
time for cross-Strait relations.  He was pretty direct in what could 
only be described as a rally-the-troops campaign speech, calling 
Taiwan's upcoming legislative and presidential elections a choice 
over whether cross-Strait relations would be characterized by "peace 
and prosperity" or "tension and recession."  Chiang exhorted (as 
much as he could in his low key manner) Taiwan residents on the 
mainland to participate in the elections. 
 
Chinese officials Call for Stronger Cross-Strait Ties 
--------------------------------------------- -------- 
 
5. (SBU) Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) officials, quoting from Hu 
Jintao's recent 17th Party Congress Report, called for the support 
of Taiwan business leaders to strengthen cross-Strait ties and 
oppose Taiwan independence.  Guangdong Provincial TAO Director 
General Chen Guoxin said 1.3 billion people on the mainland and 23 
million on Taiwan are part of a single entity and should work 
hand-in-hand to strengthen the Chinese nation.  Other Chinese 
officials at the event included Xu Mang, Director-General of the 
Economic Bureau of the State Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), Liang 
Yaowen, Director-General of Guangdong Department of Foreign Trade 
and Economic Cooperation, Liu Zhigeng, Party Secretary of Dongguan, 
and Xing Kuisheng, Taiwan Affairs Director of the Central CPC's 
Liaison Office in Hong Kong.  Xing told the Consul General that 
Taiwan businesspeople in Hong Kong looked forward to the end of an 
era in which Chen Shuibian had created "problems" for them in their 
dealings with mainland officials.  When the CG asked him to 
elaborate on that statement with specific examples, Xing declined. 
 
Comment - Taiwan Investors Say Little on Politics 
--------------------------------------------- ---- 
 
6. (SBU) Both the Chinese government and the KMT seized this 
 
GUANGZHOU 00001265  002 OF 002 
 
 
opportunity to promote their political interests.  In contrast, 
Taiwan businesspeople and investors were largely silent on political 
issues during remarks at the event, choosing instead to focus on 
business opportunities and business problems caused by new PRC 
regulations; still it was clear that they preferred a Ma victory 
even if they were not critical of Frank Hsieh.  It is unlikely that 
many will actually make the trip back to Taiwan to cast votes in 
January and March. 
 
GOLDBERG