This is probably more about Taiwan/PRC politics than anything else. Nevertheless, reciprocity is a topic of interest as TCM goes global, don't you think?

Updated Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:23 am TWN, The China Post news staff
Cabinet upholds ban on Chinese medicine degrees
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Despite a plea from a visiting Chinese province chief, the Executive Yuan reiterate yesterday that Taiwan will not recognize the academic credentials of Chinese medicine school graduates from mainland China, according to the United Evening News.

Liang Bao-hua, chief of the Chinese Communist Party in Jiangsu Province arrived at Taipei on Tuesday to meet with Chairman Chiang Pin-kung of the Strait Exchange Foundation.

Liang said that he appealed for more than 400 Taiwan students who earned medicine-related degrees in China, asking that the government would approve their educational qualifications in Taiwan.

In response to Liang's request, Chao Chien-ming from the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said that the government will not change its current policy to admit China medicine-related qualifications in Taiwan.

Instead, the government will promote the act to recognize non-medical academic qualifications from China and allow students to study in Taiwan.

Approximately forty top universities in China, including Peking University, Tsinghua University and Shanghai Fudan University, have been put on the approval list that will be sent to the Legislative Yuan, said Chao.

According to Chao, the bill of recognizing educational qualifications from China had been send to the Legislative Yuan last year and will be discussed in a meeting with the government on Friday. The MAC hopes to make the bill pass before January when the term of the national assembly ends.