Taiwan opposition top brass visits China month before election

The vice chairman of Taiwan's main opposition Nationalist Party is in China at the invitation of Taiwanese businesspeople, his party said Thursday, about a month before the island's Jan. 13 presidential election.Andrew Hsia of the opposition party known as the Kuomintang, who formerly served as Taiwan's mainland affairs chief, arrived in China on Wednesday and is visiting the cities of Chengdu, Nanchang, Zhongshan, Xiamen and Chongqing to meet with local Taiwanese communities, the KMT said in a statement.Both the KMT and the second-largest opposition Taiwan People's Party favor dialogue wit…READ FULL ARTICLE