Cross-Strait high-level talks

7th Chen–Chiang Summit in Tianjin between ARATS and SEF in October 2011

The Cross-Strait high-level talks (simplified Chinese: 两岸两会高层会谈; traditional Chinese: 兩岸兩會高層會談)^[1] are a series of meetings between

• the president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), People's Republic of China and
• the chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), Republic of China (Taiwan).

The two semi-governmental organizations represent their respective governments to deal with the Cross-Strait relations. The first eight talks were called Chen–Chiang talks (陳江會談)^[2] or Chiang–Chen talks (江陳會談),^[3] named after the surnames of leaders: Chen Yunlin of ARATS and Chiang Pin-kung of SEF.

Meetings

No.	Name	President of ARATS	Chairman of SEF	Time	Place
1	First Chen–Chiang summit	Chen Yunlin	Chiang Pin-kung	June 2008	Beijing
2	Second Chen–Chiang summit			November 2008	Taipei
3	Third Chen–Chiang summit			April 2009	Nanjing
4	Fourth Chen–Chiang summit			December 2009	Taichung
5	Fifth Chen–Chiang summit			June 2010	Chongqing
6	Sixth Chen–Chiang summit			December 2010	Taipei
7	Seventh Chen–Chiang summit			October 2011	Tianjin
8	Eighth Chen–Chiang summit			August 2012	Taipei
9	Ninth Cross-Strait high-level talks	Chen Deming	Lin Join-sane	June 2013	Shanghai
10	Tenth Cross-Strait high-level talks			February 2014	Taipei
11	Eleventh Cross-Strait high-level talks			August 2015	Fuzhou

See also

• Cross-Strait relations
• Wang–Koo summit
• 2014 Wang–Zhang meetings
• 2015 Ma–Xi meeting

References

Cross-Strait relations
People's Republic of China  Republic of China Organizations Taiwan Affairs Office Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits Communist Party of China Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League Paramount leaders Xi Jinping Hu Jintao Jiang Zemin Deng Xiaoping People Chen Deming Chen Yunlin Zhang Zhijun Wang Yi Wang Daohan Organizations Mainland Affairs Council Straits Exchange Foundation Kuomintang Democratic Progressive Party National Unification Council Presidents Tsai Ing-wen Ma Ying-jeou Chen Shui-bian Lee Teng-hui People Lin Join-sane Wang Yu-chi Chiang Pin-kung Lai Shin-Yuan Koo Chen-fu Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu
Events	Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895) Retrocession of Taiwan (1945) February 28 Incident (1947) Chinese Civil War (1946–1950) First Taiwan Strait Crisis (1954–1955) Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (1958) PRC entry to the United Nations (1971) Lieyu Massacre (1987) Third Taiwan Strait Crisis (1995–1996) Anti-Secession Law (2005) Pan-Blue visits to mainland China (2005) Cross-Strait charter (2005–2008) Sunflower Movement (2014) 2014 Wang–Zhang meetings 2015 Xi–Chu meeting 2015 Ma–Xi meeting
Negotiations	Kinmen Agreement (1990) Wang–Koo summit (1993) Cross-Strait high-level talks (2008–current) Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (2010) Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Culture Forum (2006–current) Straits Forum (2009–current) Shanghai-Taipei City Forum (2010–current) Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (2013) Cross-Strait Peace Forum (2013–current)
Concepts	Political status of Taiwan Chinese Unification One country, two systems One China, Better system Taiwan independence movement 1992 Consensus one China, respective interpretations no unification, no independence and no use of force Three Links One-China policy Two Chinas One Country on Each Side Three Noes Six Assurances Special state-to-state relations Four Noes and One Without Zhonghua Minzu Special non-state-to-state relations Cross-Strait Economic Zone Free area of the Republic of China Chinese Taipei