Taiwan has enacted strict new import quotas on foreign wives. Taiwanese men apparently find their countrywomen to be disobedient and too independent minded, so marriages between Taiwanese men and foreign women have come to outpace marriages between Taiwanese. To improve the situation, the government has imposed strict quotas on the number of spouses who can immigrate each year: 1,080 from China, 360 from Indonesia, 420 from Burma, and so on.

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