Taiwan invades the Mainland yet again: Calling all doctors!

MARKETPLACE: "Taiwan Firms Head for China To Make Money on Hospitals," by Ting-I Tsai, Wall Street Journal, 28 November 2008.

For years, the article begins, foreign healthcare firms tried to sell Western packages, but now Taiwan seeks to break that code by selling "low-cost quality health care to China's masses"--a serious bid for the bottom of the pyramid.

Taiwan's advantage: it's been running factories in China for decades, so it knows the landscape.

The low-end market is seen to range at about $150 billion a year.

Comments

[Jonathan Fu]

One can hardly see the new Taiwanese KMT's bottomline in dealing with China. Yes, the KMT administration is doing way better than the DPP has done in the past eight years, but what is its bottomline? Moreover, how much can KMT still do without arouse the political spasmic/ epiletic reactions from the DPP? After all, we are talking about a political party (DPP) that rejects even the arrival of Giant Panda bears which China gave to Taiwan as a friendly gesture... wonder never ceases.