China-Taiwan rapprochement has economic focus

Chinese communist officials and a leader of Taiwan’s Nationalist Party have held the highest-level meeting between their parties since civil war split the two sides in 1949. They called for expanded economic ties.

Chiang Pin-kung, vice chairman of the Nationalists, who once ruled China and now are Taiwan’s main opposition party, is visiting the mainland this week on a history-making trip that underscores a warming in relations with their former communist enemies.