Chen Yunlin (front left), President of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), and Chiang Pin-kung (front right), chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation(SEF), pose for photos after exchanging agreements in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, on August 9, 2012. Chinese mainland and Taiwanese negotiators on Thursday signed two cross-Strait agreements on investment protection and promotion, as well as customs cooperation (XINHUA) |