China, Taiwan sign trade pact linking economies - Yahoo! Finance

Chen Yunlin, Chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, center, speaks at a cross strait meeting for the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, in Chongqing city, China, Tuesday, June 29, 2010. Representatives from China and Taiwan met Tuesday before they were to sign the broad trade deal drawing their economies closer, which Beijing hopes could lead to political accommodation six decades after the rivals split amid civil war. (AP Photo/Peng Peng)