China’s Xi Jinping meets former Taiwan President, says no one can stop ‘family reunion’

Follow us on Image Source : REUTERS Chinese President Xi Jinping with former Taiwan President Ma Ying-Jeou in Beijing Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou and told the latter that outside inference could not stop the “family reunion” between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and that there are no issues that cannot be discussed. This meeting is significant as no serving Taiwanese leader has visited China since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan in 1949. Ma, president from 2008 to 2016, last year became the first former Taiwanese…