Taiwan is warily watching whether China could seek to try and exert economic control over sensitive front-line Taiwanese islands in a key development plan being discussed in Beijing this week, officials familiar with the matter said.
China's ruling Communist Party, at its closed-door meeting ending Thursday known as a plenum, is going to discuss, among other things, the country's 15th five-year development plan, which will formally begin next year and be unveiled in detail at March's annual meeting of parliament.
Two officials briefed on the matter said that Taiwan is paying particular attention to whether the new five-year plan makes any mention of deepening economic integration with the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen islands that sit just off China's coast.
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