Dinner diplomacy serves up solutions

It is not the first time Chinese politicians from both sides of the Taiwan Straits have chosen to meet in Singapore. That was in April 1993 when the heads of the respective liaison organizations in Beijing and Taipei came together in the Lion City.

On Saturday evening, when Xi Jinping, embarking on his first state visit to Singapore after assuming office, sits down to dinner with Ma Ying-jeou, the climate would have since undergone many changes.

Ma flew in at noon specially for this rendezvous.