Taiwan said on Monday it has for the first time exchanged jailed spies with China, in another sign of closer relations between the two sides which recently held a historic summit.
The swap took place last month ahead of Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou’s November 7 meeting with Xi Jinping — the first encounter since the rivals split in 1949 at the end of a civil war.
Beijing freed Chu Kung-hsun and Hsu Chang-kuo, the highest-ranking intelligence agents to be jailed in China after they were imprisoned in 2006, Taiwan’s Military Intelligence Bureau said.