China-Taiwan leaders' summit aims at broader audience

Significance The meeting between Taiwan's Ma Ying-jeou and China's Xi Jinping resulted from seven years of rapid rapprochement between the former Cold War enemies. No concrete agreements or proposals emerged from the symbolic meeting. Impacts China will present the meeting as evidence of its peaceful intentions in a jittery East Asian security environment. A DPP president will not undo the cross-Strait trade and transportation agreements reached under the Kuomintang. The DPP's rejection of the 'one-China principle' as a basis for negotiations will strain relations with Beijing.