China, Taiwan resume regular transport links

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China, Taiwan resume regular transport links
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China, Taiwan resume regular transport links
Posted: 11:06 PM ET
TAIPEI, Taiwan (CNN) — Regularly scheduled commercial flights, shipping and mail between Taiwan and China resumed Monday for the first time since the 1949 revolution that brought the Communist Party to power on the Chinese mainland.

A flight from the Chinese city of Shenzhen to Taiwan’s capital Taipei landed about 9:00 a.m. Monday (8 p.m. Sunday ET), while the first flight from Taipei to Shanghai departed at 8:00 a.m., Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration reported.

Taiwan separated from China after the communist victory in the Chinese civil war in 1949, with the defeated Nationalists setting up a government there. Beijing has always considered the island a renegade province and has threatened to go to war should Taiwan declare formal independence.