Smuggling through ‘three links’ still continuing: source

ILLICIT PRACTICE: Chinese recruiters approach people headed to Xiamen and offer them 80 yuan to carry items through customs, many of whom agree for ‘easy cash’ By Chen Yu-fu / Staff reporter Add TT as Preferred Source Despite a pledge by Mainland Affairs Council Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) to crack down on parallel trading with China via the “small three links,” Chinese continue to recruit ferry passengers to carry liquor from Kinmen County to Xiamen in exchange for cash, an insider said yesterday.Since Jan. 1, 2001, Taiwan and China have had direct trade, postal and transportation links, commonly known as the “small three links,” between Kinmen and Lienchiang (Matsu) counties, and China’s Xiamen, Quanzhou and Fuzhou.Chiu during a recent inspection of customs operations at the Kinmen Po