The Financial Times reported (February 7) that China has started inviting mainland-based Taiwanese businesspeople and students into “brainstorming” sessions on the future of the de facto independent nation. During the past month, officials from China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, which sets and implements Taiwan policy, have invited members of the Association of Taiwan Investment Enterprises on the Mainland to “study sessions” and “discussion forums” on Xi Jinping’s latest Taiwan policy lines, according to six members in Shanghai and the provinces of Fujian and Jiangsu. Taiwanese students in Guangzhou and Chengdu said local authorities had organised meetings with Chinese student associations to discuss how Taiwan should be ruled after unification. And in Taipei, the Labour party, a splinter group with links on the mainland that advocates unification with China, held a forum debating Xi Jinping’s policy proposals. The push by mainland authorities follows a speech in early January in which Xi Jinping promoted “One Country, Two Systems” as the path for bringing Taiwan into China’s fold.