Nanjing communist party secretary arrives in Taipei

While here, Zhu, the highest communist official to come after the Dalai Lama's visit to Taiwan last month, will meet with Wu Poh-hsiung, outgoing chairman of the Kuomintang.

“They will meet on Monday,” a Kuomintang source said.

The Zhu-Wu meeting indicates the Dalai Lama's visit has “little affected” relations between Taiwan and China, the source said.

Beijing did not threaten to take retaliatory action when President Ma Ying-jeou accepted the request by Chen Chu, mayor of Kaohsiung, and six other Democratic Progressive Party mayors and magistrates to let the Tibetan Nobel laureate come to comfort the souls of the victims of Typhoon Morakot. But Chinese government spokesmen went on the record by saying relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait would be “adversely affected.” “We believe,” the source said, “the case is closed and things are back to normal.”

Zhu is scheduled to return to Nanjing on September 25. Nanjing was the capital of the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China before Chiang Kai-shek brought it to Taipei at the end of 1949.

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