TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan and China, which once stood at the brink of war, have broken new ground with plans to post officials in each other's territories following a recent boom in two-way travel, the island government said on Wednesday.
In a move that a few years ago would have been politically unthinkable, the rivals decided they needed a quasi-consular presence to handle incidents such as a construction accident that killed two Chinese tourists in Taiwan in April.
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