Overseas Chinese and media have hailed the meeting between Hu Jintao and Lien Chan, top leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party as of historic and realistic importance.Lien’s Mainland journey and the historic meeting with Hu are positive signals for the reunification of China, said representatives of overseas Chinese groups in America gathered in San Francisco on Sunday.
“This meeting marks the first high-level political communication between the Mainland and Taiwan,” said Chi Honghu, general consultant of the newly founded Federation for China Reunification in America, which was made up of 13 Chinese groups from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., New York, Philadelphia, and other six US cities, as well as those form Costa Rica and Ecuador. The representatives said they were inspired by the Hu-Lien meeting, especially the communique released afterwards.