Taiwan News
Date: 2016-08-25
By: Elsie Tsai, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Sha Hailin, head of the United Front Work Department of Chinese Communist Party’s Shanghai 
Municipal Committee, finished a three-day visit and left Taipei for Shanghai on Thursday, August 24, 2016.
The Shanghai Communist Party official arrived in Taiwan on Monday for a city-to-city dialogue, amid a chill in relations following the inauguration of the island’s new president, Tsai Ing-wen, in May.
The visit is a rare point of direct contact between Taiwan and China in China’s earlier announcement that it was freezing exchanges between the two sides.
About a dozen politicians and citizens from pro-independence parties, including Taiwan Solidarity Union, staged an airport protest in Taipei Songshan Airport over Sha’s departure, saying the 1992 Consensus is to “lead the wolf into the house” and that Taiwan refuses united front. [FULL STORY]
