China,Taiwan gear up for historic meeting

TAIPEI: China and Taiwan are gearing up for their first government-to-government meeting in more than six decades on Tuesday—but the an analyst says the renewed political ties between the former bitter rivals may still be a long way off.

The Taiwanese government’s Wang Yu-chi, who oversees the island’s China policy, is scheduled to fly to the mainland on February 11 to meet his counterpart Zhang Zhijun, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office chief, for talks set to last until February 14.