Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/08
By: Shine Chen and Shih Hsiu-chuan

Shanghai, April 8 (CNA) Former Taiwan vice president Vincent Siew (蕭萬長) is expected

Vincent Siew (蕭萬長, right) and Xi Jinping (習近平)/CNA file photo

to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) at the Boao Forum for Asia, a regional dialogue platform in which China plays a leading role, that opened Sunday.

Taiwanese media covering the annual conference held in Hainan province have been asked to coordinate coverage of a closed-door Siew-Xi meeting, ending speculation as to whether the two men would meet, and in what form, during the four-day forum that ends April 11.

Siew heads a delegation of Taiwanese entrepreneurs attending the forum in his role as honorary chairman of the Cross-Straits Common Market Foundation.    [FULL  STORY]