Chinese President Xi Jinping maintained during his meeting with former Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou in Beijing that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are inseparable and praised him for opposing the island's independence, according to Chinese and Taiwanese media.Their second talks, following a historic cross-strait summit in 2015 in Singapore, came ahead of the May 20 inauguration of Taiwan's President-elect Lai Ching-te, who China sees as an independence advocate.Ma belongs to the opposition Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), which calls for dialogue with the m…READ FULL ARTICLE
