Leaders of China, Taiwan ruling party to meet
Leaders of China’s ruling Communist Party (CPC) and Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party are expected to meet early next month in a move aimed at improving ties between the two sides.
China’s Xinhua News Agency said on Friday that unnamed Chinese officials would meet with Taiwan Work Office of the CPC Central Committee’s Eric Chu.
Chu is heading a delegation that is expected to attend a forum in China’s Shanghai later this month, before traveling to the capital, Beijing.
Earlier, Chu said “a plan for a meeting of the two party leaders” was being arranged, suggesting he would possibly hold talks with Chinese CPC leader and President Xi Jinping.
The developments come as Taipei’s request to become a founding member of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank was rejected by Beijing, which said it could become a member “under an appropriate name” in the future.
China sees Taiwan as one of its provinces awaiting reunification. Taiwan split from China in 1949 after a civil war, but Beijing says it expects a reunion even by force.
In 2005, former chairman of the ruling party, Kuomintang (KMT) Lien Chan made the first trip by a Taiwanese official to China since 1949. Wu Po-hsiung’s visit to China in 2008 was the last trip made by a KMT chairman to the mainland.
Relations between China and Taiwan have been improving since Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou came to power in 2008.
In 2010, the two sides signed the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement trade pact.
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