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China Sending Top Envoy to Taiwan

From the Straits Times: On November 3, the chairman of China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (Arats) Chen Yulin will visit Taipei to continue the second round of cross-straits talks. Chen will be the most senior Chinese official to visit Taiwan since 1949, despite recent protests that have rocked the island: Over the weekend, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets