November 4, 2015

"Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, is scheduled to meet Taiwan's leader Ma Ying-jeou in Singapore on Nov 7 to discuss cross-Straits issues, a Chinese mainland Taiwan affairs official said Wednesday in Beijing.

It will become the first meeting of its kind from the two sides since the Chinese civil war (1946-49).

China's Taiwan Affairs Office said in a statement: 'The mainland's attitude on a meeting between leaders from both sides of the Taiwan Straits is positive and consistent. If there is news on this, we will issue it in a timely manner.'"

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