Mainland and Taiwan to set up rep offices after historic talks

At their first high-level talks since the 1949 creation of the People’s Republic of China, mainland China and Taiwan agreed on Tuesday to set up representative offices as early as possible, and to deepen economic ties, Reuters reported. Sensitive political issues like a formal peace treaty were not up for discussion at the talks between Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Minister Wang Yu-chi and China’s Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun, who heads the Taiwan Affairs Office. In October, Chinese President Xi Jinping said a political solution to the standoff between the mainland and the island could not be postponed forever.