The 1,600 Amway workers were the first batch of over 12,000 Chinese Amway employees expected to visit Taiwan on nine separate cruises between March 16 and May 10, on incentive sightseeing tours arranged by Chinese Amway (China) Co., Limited for its outstanding workers.
This will be the largest ever contingent from China to visit Taiwan since last June, when Taiwan increased its daily quota of Chinese tourists to 3,000.
To expedite entry procedures at the Keelung Harbor for the Amway groups, five officials with Keelung's Boarder Affairs Corps under the National Immigration Agency went to Shanghai over the weekend where they boarded the cruise ship, Legend of the Seas, to check the travel documents of the passengers heading for Taiwan.
Upon arrival in Keelung, the 1,600 Chinese Amway workers boarded 40 tourism buses that took them to Taipei City, where they were scheduled to visit the famous National Palace Museum and the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and then go shopping in the upscale Hsinyi District.
Before returning to the Legend of the Seas for the night, they are scheduled to visit the Keelung night market, where they will sample typical Taiwanese snacks and spend coupons given to them by Amway Taiwan.
The tourists are expected to go on sightseeing tours to Hualien Harbor in eastern Taiwan Tuesday and to Taichung Harbor in central Taiwan Wednesday.
Does anybody not know that you should never let Amway salesmen in your house lest they never leave?
Expedited movement of 3,000 tourists per day in organized groups to the capital and to Taiwanese ports are being practiced. If the tour groups stop being Amway and senior citizen groups and suddenly consist of sports teams whose members are unusually quiet and fit, with short hair cuts, I'd be suspicious. If Taiwan had to allow tourists, couldn't it be done on an individual basis to minimize the chance that Peking will ship over special forces troops in civilian clothes?
That Amway tour would be a convenient itinerary for assault troops, no? Imagine several days of such tour groups arriving, sporting short hair cuts and suspiciously almost all male, spreading out across key Taiwanese ports and Taepei? Nine thousand men would be about 20 light infantry battalions. If the PLA stocks warehouses on Taiwan with weapons and equipment, the first wave suddenly materializes. If they can hold the ports long enough, other hidden invaders could land quickly.
So just what could China do with a first wave on the ground before the first Taiwanese orders to resist a Chinese attack are even given?
