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Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou speaks to American Chamber of Commerce members about the warming of relations with rival China, Thursday, March 5, 2009, in Taipei, Taiwan. In a report to China’s annual legislative session’s opening ceremony Thursday, Premier Wen Jiabao hailed a significant improvement in ties and a major reduction in tensions over the past year between China and the self-governing island of Taiwan that Beijing claims as Chinese territory. (AP) |