The leader of Taiwan’s opposition Nationalists will travel to China later this month for the first encounter with a leader of China’s Communists in more than five decades, party officials said Wednesday.
Party leader Lien Chan declined to give details of what he would discuss with China’s President Hu Jintao when they meet in Beijing on April 29, but he characterized his trip as a “voyage of peace.”
“Our aim at this time is to bring peace for both sides of the Taiwan Strait, stability for both sides, and to lay some positive groundwork for the whole future,” Lien said.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 at the end of a bitter civil war when the Nationalists fled to the island as the Communists took control of the mainland.
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