Leaders of China and Taiwan Will Meet

“The leaders of China and Taiwan will meet on Saturday for the first time since the governments split in 1949 after the Communist takeover on the mainland,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“A meeting would be the clearest signal yet of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ambitions to reunify the democratic island and of Beijing’s concerns about elections there in January. The news agency said Mr. Xi would meet Taiwan’s president, Ma Ying-jeou, in Singapore. Chinese authorities made no such announcement and Chinese officials couldn’t be reached to comment.”