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Taiwan’s president and the most senior Communist Chinese official to ever visit the island held a brief but historic meeting Thursday, capping what the Taiwanese leader described as a successful trip even as anti-China protesters battled police outside.
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In this Dec. 18, 2007, file photo, Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, speaks prior to a foreign policy forum as retired Air Force Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration listens in Des Moines, Iowa. On March 18, 2008, President Barack..
