Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou's mention of a possible peace agreement with mainland China to end six decades of hostility across the Taiwan Strait has become a political bombshell. Though Ma qualified his statement, saying this would only happen in 10 years and only after a referendum, Ma's unexpected move has the opposition anti-unification Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) up in arms. His domestic opponents allege Beijing wouldn't honor the pact and that it would weaken Taipei's status on the
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