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Given the tension in cross-Straits relations over the past eight years with the Democratic Progress Party's (DPP) control of Taiwan, many have been relieved to see warmer ties between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan with the Kuomintang's (KMT) return to power on the island.

KMT chairman Wu Poh-hsiung on Saturday said that "the sky has cleared after the rain", referring to cross-Straits ties on the last day of his landmark six-day visit to the mainland.

Few doubt that Wu's trip will help generate more cross-Straits interaction and goodwill in the coming months.

Signs are already pointing to the gearing up of people-to-people exchanges across the Straits after decades of isolation.

Talks between the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and its Taiwan counterpart Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) have already been scheduled for resumption between June 11 and 14.

Taiwan media reports have a...

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