Handshakes that shook the world

By THE MANILA TIMES

Jun 12, 2018 10:05 am

The Xi-Ma summit in 2015 was the first time leaders from Beijing and Taipei met since Taiwan split from the mainland in 1949. AFP PHOTO

After decades of estrangement following a traumatic split at the end of a civil war in 1949, the presidents of China and Taiwan met for the first time ever in Singapore.

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