Nothing of substance should come out of this first meeting, but it is still an historic event.

Herunar:

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.


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