When the presidents of China and Taiwan hold an unprecedented summit in Singapore on Saturday, neither will need reminding of the risks involved.
In 1945, the last such high-profile meeting between the leaders of the Chinese Communist party and the Kuomintang, the political force that once ruled Beijing and now governs Taiwan, failed to prevent a renewed outbreak of civil war.
Chiang Kai-shek, the KMT leader who told Mao Zedong before their meeting that no such “recrudescence” of the conflict could be tolerated, fled to the island; the rest of China fell under the control of Mao and the communists.
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