China's top Taiwan affairs official Zhang Zhijun meet for talks with his Taiwanese counterpart yesterday, protested against the visit.
Mr. 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.
As Mr Zhang arrived by boat, members from the anti-China opposition Taiwan Solidarity Union waved placards shouted " oppose Hais-Zhang meeting. Taiwan interests betrayed "
China's rejection of Taiwan as a founding member of the Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank was expected to be raised at the meeting. Also expected on the agenda were a controversial goods trade agreement and new flight routes. Tensions between Taiwan and China have decreased markedly since 2008 after Ma Ying-Jeou of the China-friendly Kuomintang party came to power promising to beef up trade and tourism links.