LONDON – A great deal of water has flowed through the Taiwan Strait in the 70 years since the leader of China’s Communists, Mao Zedong, met the leader of his nationalist opponents, Chiang Kai-shek. So the recent meeting in Singapore between their heirs, President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic and his Taiwanese counterpart, Ma Ying-jeou, could legitimately be described as historic.
伦敦—自70年前中国共产党领袖毛泽东与他的国民党对手蒋介石会面以来，台湾海峡便成为一道不可逾越的海峡。因此，他们的后继者，中华人民共和国主席习近平及其台湾同道马英九最近在新加坡的碰面称为历史性可谓实至名归。