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China,Taiwan Agree on Cross-Strait Flights

Posted Jun 13, 08 4:41 CDT in World 

(Newser) – The first talks between China and Taiwan in almost a decade have yielded a historic travel agreement, reports Reuters. Regular flights between the two will begin next month for the first time since the Communists won China's civil war in 1949. Relations between the rivals—still officially at war—have thawed rapidly since Taiwan voted in a more China-friendly president in March.

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Chen Yunlin, right, head of Beijing's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, exchanges documents with Taiwan's Chiang Pin-kung during a signing ceremony in Beijing , June 13, 2008.   (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Xiaoguo)
Chen Yunlin, right, chairman of Chinese mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, shakes hands with Chiang Pin-kun, chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation.   (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Xiaoguo)
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