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Article: Mainland's Taiwan affairs chief encourages Chinese Taipei athletes to treat Beijing as home court
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 5, 2008
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Mainland's Taiwan affairs chief encourages Chinese Taipei
athletes to treat Beijing as home court
BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Wang Yi, the mainland's Taiwan
affairs chief, said Chinese Taipei athletes participating in the
Olympics should treat Beijing as home court and their mainland
compatriots would be cheering for them.
"People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are all part of the
same family. Mainland compatriots feel amiable from the bottom of
their hearts towards Taiwan compatriots," Wang was quoted as saying
by the China New Service on Tuesday.
From the time when Chinese Taipei athletes disembarked their
plane they were warmly welcomed by Beijing residents, Wang said. All
staff of ...