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Backgrounder: Talks between leaders of ARATS and SEF
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Source: CCTV.com | 04-26-2009 15:30
Special Report: 3rd round of cross-strait talkThe talks between Chiang and Chen began last year. Now let's take a brief look back at their talks.
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| Chen Yunlin, president of the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), holds talks with Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, on April 26, 2009. This was the third round of talks between them in less than a year.(Xinhua/Sun Can) |
MARCH, 2008
In March, 2008 Ma Ying-jeon, the candidate representing Taiwan's Kuomintang, or KMT, won the island's leadership election. Ma said people across the Taiwan Straits are all Chinese, creating an opportunity for the resumption of cross-strait talks.
MAY 29TH, 2008
In May last year, the mainland-based ARATS invited SEF Chairman Chiang Pin-kung to visit Beijing for talks on the cross-Strait weekend chartered flights and mainland tourists traveling to Taiwan.
