PFP leader begins mainland visit
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Updated: 2005-05-05 20:37

James Soong, chairman of Taiwan's second-largest opposition party, the People First Party, speaks at the airport after his arrival in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province May 5, 2005. [newsphoto]

James Soong, right, chairman of Taiwan's second-largest opposition party, the People First Party, is accompanied by Chen Yunlin, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Communist Party of China, at Xi'an airport in Shaanxi Province Thursday May 5, 2005. Soong arrived in the mainland on a visit aimed at easing tensions between the mainland and Taiwan, days after the chairman of Taiwan's main opposition Nationalist party, Lien Chan, returned from a weeklong tour. [AP]

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