Someday it may be possible to work out a political arrangement that both mainlanders and Taiwanese find acceptable.
China, which does not have a legal gambling system, finds it convenient to have Macao as a close-by outlet for Mainlanders, who must obtain a permit to visit from the Mainland authorities.
They said they were "pained that exchanges had become abusive, pained by the lack of understanding, pained that some Hong Kong people look upon the mainland with hatred, pained that Hong Kong has been seen by some mainlanders with disgust".
He was not remotely bothered by the mainlanders who were packing up goods nearby.
But many are also Taiwanese nationalists, anxious to realize the aspirations of the native Taiwanese majority so long frustrated by the mainlanders who elbowed them aside in 1948.
Police stations are a favorite target, but some attacks are aimed at vacation homes built by French mainlanders or foreign nationals, who Corsican separatists say are slowly colonizing the island.
The void is filled by casinos, some two dozen of them, owned by Turkish mainlanders and essentially unregulated.
A Chinese central bank study in February provided a timeline to ease capital controls over 5 to 10 years to give people outside the mainland more freedom to buy mainland assets, while allowing direct access by mainlanders to outside markets.
The aloha shirt, after all, was not invented by mainlanders like the great haole Harry Truman, as we believed, but by a real local, Ellery Chun, a Honolulu tailor in the 1920s.
First, it can supply capital, once plans to relax rules on investment by mainlanders come into effect.
