Lured in by the promise of a cheap vacation packed with cultural activities, some young Taiwanese are heading to China for state-sponsored summer camps. But beyond the sightseeing and entertainment lies a more covert aim: to awaken Taiwanese youths’ connection to the “motherland”.
Alice Su, The Economist’s senior China correspondent and David Rennie, our Beijing bureau chief explore what happens inside these cross-strait youth camps and ask: do they make young Taiwanese feel more Chinese?
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