Protests mar China, Taiwan officials’ meet

TAIPEI: China’s top Taiwan affairs official Zhang Zhijun met for talks with his Taiwanese counterpart Saturday, as dozens of angry demonstrators protested the visit.

Zhang, director of China’s Taiwan affairs office, met Andrew Hsia, chairman of Taiwan’s top China policy decision-making body, the Mainland Affairs Council, in Kinmen -- a Taiwan-administered island off China’s Xiamen city.