Taiwan accuses China of deliberately fueling brain drain by wooing away island’s top talent
Just one year after founding his own interior design business in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, Allen Wu decided it was time to pursue the bright lights of Shanghai in neighbouring China instead.
“The market in Taipei is just really small,” said Mr Wu, 36. “It’s not that I couldn’t survive, it’s just that I’ve got more opportunities in China, I’ve got bigger projects.”
Mr Wu is far from alone. Over 400,000 of Taiwan’s workforce have sought higher salaries and better job prospects on the Chinese mainland despite growing political tensions between Beijing and Taipei since Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen came to power in 2016.
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PICHI CHUANG/Reuters
China, which claims the island democracy as its own territory, is suspicious…
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