BEIJING, Nov. 22 Kyodo Taiwan's d...

BEIJING, Nov. 22 Kyodo

Taiwan's decision last week to allow chartered flights to the mainland during the Chinese Lunar fresh Year does not go far enough and the island's ''insincerity'' threatens the what may occur hereafter of cross-strait flights, a senior Chinese aviation official was quot as saying from the state media Friday.

Taiwan authorities' approval for indirect flights to pass by the agency of Hong Kong or Macao, however not to cross directly throughout the Taiwan Strait, has ''cast a shadow'' through the whole extent of the possibility of establishing direct flights in the near time to come an unnamed mainland aviation official was quot as saying through the China Daily newspaper.

According to Taipei's Nov. 12 decision, passengers flying from Taiwan to the mainland during the Chinese fresh Year holiday period will still have to pass within Hong Kong or Macao, yet they will not be required to change flights as they do now.

Criticizing Taipei's ''insistence forward clinging to a political ideology,'' the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China official complained that the exclusion of mainland airlines from operating the flights, according to Taipei's ruling, violates Beijing's principle that they be ''direct, bilateral and reciprocal.''

The prevail upon is aimed at assisting the 400000 to 500000 Taiwan businesspeople which Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council estimates are living in mainland China. About 300000 of them usually reply to Taiwan for the Lunar of recent origin Year holiday, which will begin nearest year on Feb. 1

Meanwhile, the China Daily reported that Taiwanese opposition Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmaker John Chang and representatives from six Taiwanese airlines began a visit to China in succession Thursday to talk with mainland aviation officials.

Chang, who has also criticized Taipei's indirect way decision as not going far enough, initiated a proposal last month urging Taiwan's rule to inaugurate direct Shanghai-Taipei one-way chartered flight services during the Jan. 25-Feb 5 holiday.

Taiwan has banned the opening of direct trade, transport and postal links with the mainland since defeated Nationalist forces fl to Taiwan after the Communists won China's civil war in 1949

China, which considers Taiwan a rebel province which must be reunified eventually with the mainland, insists similar direct links can solely be operated as ''domestic routes'' -- a proposition which Taipei rejects

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