The Three Links or Three Linkages (Chinese: 三通; Pinyin: sān tōng) was a "message to Compatriots in Taiwan" calling for the unification of China and Taiwan. It was sent by the PRC National People's Congress in 1979.
The three links include direct postal (通郵/通邮 tōng yóu), transportation (especially airline) (通航 tōng háng), and trade (通商 tōng shāng) links between China and Taiwan. Communication between the two sides were routed through intermediate destinations, primarily Hong Kong; Macau; Jeju, South Korea and Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The "Three Links" were officially restored on 15 December 2008, with the commencement of direct flights, shipping and post.
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“All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity—their links with their dead and the unborn.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)