From the New York Times (link):
Politically, Taiwan’s relationship to Beijing could be characterized primarily as a rift borne of defiance on one side and menacing rebuke on the other. But geologically, the small island of Taiwan appears to be on a collision course with mainland China. Over millions of years, that is.
Now an international coalition of scientists from the United States, Taiwan and Japan are planning to delve into those mountain-building processes. And despite friction between Taipei and Beijing, the project’s leaders have quietly requested assistance from mainland Chinese geologists. If officially approved, the researchers say, the collaboration would be one of the biggest formal cross-strait scientific partnerships. Such joint endeavors remain rare.
