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Why are China and Taiwan meeting now?

Name: Why are China and Taiwan meeting now?
Uploaded: 2015-11-04T13:29:46.005Z
Duration: 4 min 45 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: James Kynge on what’s in it for Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou

The leaders of China and Taiwan are holding a historic summit this weekend. Leader writer James Blitz and emerging markets editor James Kynge discuss why the two sides are keen to meet for the first time since Taiwan broke with China in 1949.

November 4, 2015

Filmed by Rod Fitzgerald. Produced by Darryl Thomson.