Taiwan

Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou indicated there were certain lines he would not cross in dealing with the mainland when he rebuffed a suggestion by Wang Yi, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, that the number of direct cross-strait flights would be sharply increased by opening up the centre of the Taiwan Strait. He said the airspace around the central line was "a key training base for our air force which is impossible to open up".