CHINESE President Xi Jinping met Kuomintang chairwoman Cheng Li-wun at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing today. It was the first meeting between leaders of their two parties (Mr Xi is also general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party) in a decade.President Xi said reunification between mainland China and Taiwan, which has governed itself since the Kuomintang lost the Chinese civil war in 1949 and fled to the island, was a “historical inevitability.

First meeting between leaders of the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang, which ruled the mainland until 1949, in 10 years

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