EDITORIAL
Date: 2016-08-25
By: Taiwan News, Staff Writer

The capital of Taiwan and the most populated city in China managed to get together and hold a joint forum. In itself not a historic achievement, considering the forum took place before.

Even last year, after independent Ko Wen-je had been elected and taken office as mayor of Taipei, the forum went ahead, despite Chinese doubts about the new mayor’s “ideological tendencies.”

It would sound more than normal that after taking place in Shanghai last year, the forum moved back to Taipei this year, yet it was still regarded as no mean achievement.

The main reason for that is that it was the first and most high-level cross-straits event to take place in Taiwan since Democratic Progressive Party Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen was elected president last January 16 and took office with her administration on May 20.     [FULL  STORY]