On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, Henry J. Cobb wrote:

First is Joketsuzoku custom, law in China in general?  (The Chinese govt
has a history of seeing diplomatic contacts with parts of China (say
Taiwan) very poorly)

	Doubtful.  There is a lot of opinions about the relationship
between the Joketsuzuko village and Beijing (personally I think that they
just politely ignore each other) but none of them involves recognition of
the former as a soverign nation or full acceptance of their laws.

HTG