Nothing of substance should come out of this first meeting, but it is still an historic event.
This is an unbelievably huge deal. Yeah, most people are right when they say there's little that will come out of it but I think it's pretty hard to ignore just how big this is - the CCP and GMD hated each other so much (mostly because, frankly, Chiang Kai-shek was a total dickhead) that they refused to cooperate and lead China out of its war-torn state together and instead fought a costly civil war and basically stared each other down across the Strait for about forty years. Recently, the GMD's been (rather ironically) more-or-less calling for eventual reunification with China, much to the dissatisfaction of the opposition parties and most of the younger generations in Taiwan. I really am very curious as to how this will all turn out, especially since Ma is quite pro-CCP/Xi Jinping.