TAIPEI: Taiwan said on Monday it would raise the issue of press freedom with China at their first government-to-government talks since 1949, after media outlets were refused accreditation for this week’s meeting.

The Mainland Affairs Council, which formulates the island’s China policy, said its chairman Wang Yu-chi would “discuss issues related to equal exchanges of news information” when he meets on Tuesday with his counterpart Zhang Zhijun, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office chief.

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