OPINION

Ma-Xi meeting and the art of words

News, Jing Bao-chiun, Published on 20/11/2015

» To observers around the world, the groundbreaking handshake between Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Nov 7 was a display of great symbolic progress in cross-Strait relations. To the domestic viewers in Taiwan, however, what mattered even more were the words spoken in this encounter -- particularly the opening remarks delivered by Mr Xi and Mr Ma.