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Wu Poh-hsiung, Chairman of Taiwan's Kuomintang, visited the Chinese mainland on May 26-31,at the invitation of Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Partyof China. During their meeting on May 28, the two leaders reached consensus on strengtheningexchanges and promoting mutual trust across the Taiwan Straits. Li Jiaquan and Sun Shengliang,researchers at the Institute of Taiwan Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, published ar-ticles on the meeting between Hu and Wu, projecting an optimistic future for cross-straits relations.