SINGAPORE: The leaders of China and Taiwan hold a landmark summit Saturday that will put a once unthinkable presidential seal on a historic rapprochement between the former Cold War rivals.

The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwan's Ma Ying-jeou is the first between leaders of the two sides since their 1949 split following a civil war won by the Chinese Communists.

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