Pro-China groups step up offensive to win over Taiwan

By Yimou Lee and James Pomfret TAIPEI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - When Taiwanese businessman Jhang Yun-nan wanted to find buyers for his company's new cleaning products in China, he turned to an unconventional channel: A Taiwanese party that advocates the unification of China with the self-ruled, democratic island. A senior member of the Chinese Unification Promotion Party (CUPP) said the group would "have a word" with officials from Guangdong's Administration for Market Regulation to help Jhang's China-based Yi Yuan Ji Biotechnology Co Ltd - on one condition. The member, Lin Guo-cing, told Jhang in the presence of Reuters that a "correct ideology" was needed to do business in China, touting access to dozens of Chinese officials in Guangdong

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