Singapopre: Singapore said today that both Beijing and Taipei had asked it to help set up this weekend's historic summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Taiwanese counterpart Ma Ying-jeou.
The first-ever leaders' meeting between the two sides since they split at the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 will be held Saturday, on the sidelines of a state visit by Xi to Singapore.
The mainly ethnic Chinese city-state also hosted unofficial China-Taiwan talks in 1993 that helped pave the way for a thaw in relations.
"As a close and longstanding friend of both Mainland China and Taiwan, we are happy to facilitate and be the venue for their direct dialogue," the ministry said.
The talks were named after China's Wang Daohan and Taiwan's Koo Chen-fu, who led private but government-backed delegations that met in April 1993.
The first-ever leaders' meeting between the two sides since they split at the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 will be held Saturday, on the sidelines of a state visit by Xi to Singapore.
The mainly ethnic Chinese city-state also hosted unofficial China-Taiwan talks in 1993 that helped pave the way for a thaw in relations.
"As a close and longstanding friend of both Mainland China and Taiwan, we are happy to facilitate and be the venue for their direct dialogue," the ministry said.
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The talks were named after China's Wang Daohan and Taiwan's Koo Chen-fu, who led private but government-backed delegations that met in April 1993.
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