BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping told former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday (Apr 10) that outside inference could not stop the "family reunion" between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and that there are no issues that cannot be discussed.

Since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war to Mao Zedong's communists, no serving Taiwanese leader has visited China.