China’s Top Taiwan Affairs Official Visits Island After Protests
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China’s top official in charge of cross-strait affairs began a four-day trip to Taiwan yesterday, two months after protests halted a trade pact between the two economies.
Zhang Zhijun, who is also a member of the Communist Party’s central committee that elects China’s elite Politburo, arrived in Taipei yesterday, the first head of the State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office to visit Taiwan. His first words on arrival were in the local Minnan dialect, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.