The real beginning of the end?

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“We talked about economic and trade agreements, and financial cooperation will be next. The next thing after that will be a peace agreement, but it will take a long time,” said Stephen S.F. Chen, who is now a national policy advisor to President Ma Ying-jeou.

“The so-called confidence-building measures (CBMs) will be beyond a peace agreement,” he added....

“They still think the civil war is not over. That is why the peace agreement is necessary. But a peace agreement does not necessarily include CBMs,” he said.