Top Chinese negotiator to visit Taiwan next month

Zhang Mingqing (張銘清) will attend an academic forum in Taipei and plans to meet his Taiwanese counterparts, said an official at Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation, which handles cross-Strait ties.

Zhang, vice president of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, will also travel to central and eastern Taiwan but will stay away from the south where the scuffle took place, said by the local press.

Scores of Taiwanese pro-independence activists pushed Zhang to the ground in southern Taiwan in 2008, sparking an angry response from Beijing.

China and Taiwan split in 1949 following a civil war, but Beijing still regards the island as part of its territory awaiting reunification, by force if necessary.

Zhang's semi-official association is authorized by Beijing to handle civilian exchanges with Taiwan in the absence of official contact between the two sides.

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