The Taiwanese and Chinese semi-official agencies that handle cross-strait negotiations will meet on Friday for preparatory talks. They plan to discuss the possibility of signing a service trade agreement. Before then, KMT Honorary Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung heads to China for a high-level, party-to-party meeting. He arrived Wednesday and will represent the KMT in a Thursday meeting with Xi Jinping, the Communist Party chief and president of China. The opposition DPP is criticizing the arrangement because it feels the KMT is putting the party ahead of the national government.
