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 | Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan, left poses for pictures with Chinese PresidentHu Jintao as they shake hands in a historic meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Friday, April 29, 2005. The meeting caps a historic reconciliation between the two parties whose bloody civil war split China in 1949. click to open  |  | Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan, left shake hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao in a historic meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Friday, April 29, 2005. The meeting caps a historic reconciliation between the two parties whose bloody civil war split China in 1949. click to open |  | Taiwan opposition leader Lien Chan (C) waves while touring the mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen, the father of the revolution that toppled China's last emperor in 1911, in Nanjing, April 27, 2005. Lien paid homage on Wednesday to the father of modern China on a historic tour of the mainland, nearly 60 years after his party was toppled by the communists and fled across the Strait. click to open |  | Taiwan opposition leader Lien Chan (C) waves while touring the mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen, the father of the revolution that toppled China's last emperor in 1911, in Nanjing, April 27, 2005. Lien paid homage on Wednesday to the father of modern China on a historic tour of the mainland, nearly 60 years after his party was toppled by the communists and fled across the Strait. click to open |  | Taiwan's opposition leader Lien Chan signs the signature book at the mausoleum in Nanjing, China, Wednesday, April 27, 2005. Lien visited the tomb of Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary claimed by both his party and its former communist enemies as their founding hero, as he prepared for a history-making meeting this week with Chinese President Hu Jintao. click to open |  | Taiwan's opposition leader Lien Chan stands in silence in front of the statue of Sun Yat-sen at the mausoleum in Nanjing, China, Wednesday, April 27, 2005. Lien visited the tomb of Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary claimed by both his party and its former communist enemies as their founding hero, as he prepared for a history-making meeting this week with Chinese President Hu Jintao. click to open |  | Taiwan opposition leader Lien Chan pays tribute in front of a statue of Sun Yat-sen, the father of the revolution that toppled China's last emperor in 1911, during a visit at Sun's mausoleum in Nanjing April 27, 2005. Lien called for peace with China as he toured historic mainland sites on Wednesday, nearly 60 years after his party was ousted from power by the communists and fled across the Strait. click to open |  | Taiwan opposition leader Lien Chan (C) and his wife (2nd L) wave while touring the mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen, father of the revolution that toppled China's last emperor in 1911, in Nanjing April 27, 2005. Lien called for peace with China as he toured historic mainland sites on Wednesday, nearly 60 years after his party was ousted from power by the communists and fled across the Strait. click to open |  | Taiwan police drag a protestor away from Chiang Kai Shek International Airport near Taipei April 26, 2005. Hundreds of pro-independence supporters went to the airport to blast Taiwan opposition leader Lien Chan's visit to China, aimed at improving ties with the island's arch-rival. The protestors called Lien 'traitor!' and scuffled with riot police, infuriated that he appeared to be playing into Beijing's strategy of wooing the pro-unification opposition to alienate independence-leaning Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian. click to open |  | Supporters of Taiwan's main opposition Kuomintang chairman Lien Chan wave their national flag at the airport in Taipei ahead of his historic departure for mainland China. Hundreds of pro-independence protesters opposed to the visit fought violent clashes with his supporters inside the airport click to open |
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