From AFP:
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou plans to bolster the island’s ties with China later this month to coincide with the 50th anniversary of a battle between the cross-Strait rivals, a report said Sunday.
Ma will fly to Kinmen, a Taiwan-controlled fortified island group just miles off China’s southeastern Xiamen city, on August 23, and deliver a speech “of historic significance,” the United Daily News said.
Ma is expected to extend an olive branch to Beijing during his speech centring on “rapprochement and peace,” it said.
