LiuJieyi,inhisdebutasheadoftheStateCouncilTaiwanAffairsOffice,metadelegationfromTaiwanonMondayinShanghai.Theisland'sdelegationwasledbyEricChuLi-lun,mayorofNewTa
The mainland office responsible for cross-Straits relations has urged Taiwan to improve safety across its whole tourist sector and to take measures to ensure the safety of mainland travelers.
The passage of China's first carrier battle group through the Taiwan Straits on Wednesday will not affect cross-Straits relations, said Liu Zhenmin, vice-foreign minister.
Hung Hsiu-chu, leader of Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) Party, arrived in Nanjing on Sunday evening.
The new chief of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation took office on Monday with no mention of the "1992 Consensus", showing that the island's administration is reluctant to pursue stronger cross-Straits ties, scholars said.
Taiwan is responsible for stalling communication between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits, the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office said on Wednesday.
The government has never set quotas for mainland tourists traveling across the Taiwan Straits, the spokesman for the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office said on Wednesday about a recent decline in mainland tourists to the island.
Media in Hong Kong and Macao said on Saturday that the Chinese mainland's Taiwan Affairs authorities' response to the inaugural speech made by the new leader of the Taiwan authorities has expressed firm stance while revealing flexibility and enough goodwill.
Throughout his two terms, Taiwan's former leader Ma Ying-jeou brought the island closer to the mainland, increasing the number of tourists, business deals and talks across the Straits to a level not thought possible a decade ago, experts say.
As Taiwan's new leader prepares for her inauguration, business people look for relations with the mainland to remain on an even keel
Indian Navy on patrol in the Malacca Straits are joining the search and rescue operations for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 that has been missing since Saturday, reported local daily Times Now online Tuesday.
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