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The Seventh Chen–Chiang summit (第七次陳江會談) is part of a series of the

Chen-Chiang summit The Cross-Strait high-level talks are a series of meetings between * the president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), People's Republic of China and * the chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), Republic ...

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meetings. It is held between the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) represented by Chen Yun-lin and Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) represented by

Chiang Pin-kung Chiang Pin-kung (; 16 December 1932 – 10 December 2018) was a Taiwanese politician. He led the Ministry of Economic Affairs from 1993 to 1996, when he was named Minister of the Council for Economic Planning and Development, where he served u ...

Meeting

The seventh meeting was held from October 19 to 21, 2011 at

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. The two sides signed a

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safety pact. Under the agreement the two sides guarantee transparency of construction of

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and the monitoring of existing stations. In the meeting China said they have 14 nuclear reactors with 26 reactors under construction. This pact is to improve cooperation in case of disasters such as a

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. According to '' Next Magazine'', currently the majority of

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s are in south China.

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has the most with 33 reactors, the majority of them are right next to the

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border.Next magazine. Issue 1089. March 24, 2011.

Unsigned

The two sides failed to reach an agreement on Taiwan businessmen operations on the mainland. This would have covered: personal safety protection, dispute resolution and investment controls. Should anything go wrong, Taiwan wants to allow an international arbitrator involved. But Beijing does not want to involve any third parties in the process. Beijing also saw the investment protection pact as a bilateral agreement where Taiwan might be treated as a separate nation. Beijing was unwilling to face up to the

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