The grandchildren of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong (毛澤東) and his arch rival Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) met in Taiwan in a rare encounter mirroring the warming ties between Beijing and Taipei, a report said yesterday.
Kong Dongmei (孔東梅), believed to be the first descendant of Mao to visit Taiwan, is in Taipei with a cultural delegation from China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, the Chinese-language China Times reported.
She met on Monday with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator John Chiang (蔣孝嚴), grandson of late dictator Chiang Kai-shek.
The two met when Kong’s delegation visited the KMT’s headquarters.
“It’s just a coincidence we met. I didn’t think too much about it,” Kong said when asked if their meeting symbolized the end of the feud between the two late leaders, the report said.
Kong, who runs a multi-media publishing company in Beijing, has reportedly made three previous low-profile visits to Taiwan, most recently in July.
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