Taipei - Taiwan's top negotiator in talks with China Wednesday headed to Beijing for historic talks that will pave the way for cross-strait rapprochement after six decades of impasse.
"We hope through the talks this time, our two sides would be able to achieve a win-win situation so that people across the Taiwan Strait can live better," said Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), before departing.
He said his four-day trip to Beijing is a "journey to build mutual trust" with China, a long-time rival of the island since the two sides split at the end of a civil war in 1949.
The two sides had their first historic talks in 1993 in Singapore, but China suspended further dialogue in 1999 to retaliate against Taiwan leaders' advocating independence.
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