Meeting of the grandchildren
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong and his arch-rival for control of China, Chiang Kai-shek had a complex relationship. Now two of their grandchildren have met for the first time. Taiwan split from mainland China as Chiang’s Nationalist forces fled the victorious Communists in 1949. Marco Werman has more.
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