MAC to train ‘united front’ awareness

FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED: As China subsidizes more and more student visits, the MAC aims to train more Taiwanese to view ‘united front’ efforts critically By Huang Ching-hsuan and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNA Add TT as Preferred Source The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) yesterday said it would work with schools to reinforce awareness about China and the risks of traveling there after a government watchdog warned about increasingly one-sided cross-strait educational exchanges.According to a statement by the Control Yuan last Wednesday, China has expanded efforts to attract Taiwanese students through scientific research programs, talent competitions and other exchange activities in the past few years. The number of Taiwanese students participating in such p