Xi Jinping’s ‘historic handshake’ offer to Taiwan’s KMT leader could backfire

By World Tribune on May 1, 2015   BB Inside China, China, Exclusives, Intel Brief, NE Asia, Taiwan, Top Stories  

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, EastAsiaIntel.com President Xi Jinping has invited Eric Chu, Chairman of Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT, or the Nationalists) Party for a “historic handshake” in Beijing early next month on May 4. This will be the second time since 1949 that the heads of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the KMT […]