Furthermore, Hong Kong has a bilingual language policy in which both Chinese and English are official languages. This applies to not only legal, tax and governmental documents, but also to financial institutions and the transportation infrastructure.
Compared to the Hong Kong government's practical understanding of what it takes to attract talent from abroad, the Taiwanese government's ill-informed plan to attract skilled, white-collar immigrants seems naive and full of holes.
Jackson Yeh is a research assistant in the Center for Contemporary China at National Tsing Hua University.
Translated by Lin Ya-ti
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