Taiwan’s president will meet China’s president for the first time ever

   Members of the Chinese Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, fled to the island of Taiwan in 1949, as it became clear that they were losing their civil war against China’s Communist Party. Since then, Taiwan has become a democracy and no Taiwanese president has met with the leader of the Chinese Communist Party—and the Communist Party has been reluctant to meet with a Taiwanese leader for fear that it would confer legitimacy on the island’s government.

Like it or not, Turkey is now President Erdogan’s state

Cars filled with militant supporters of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) celebrated its unexpectedly decisive victory in the Turkish parliamentary election by driving through the streets of Istanbul cheering and waving their party’s yellow and blue flags. They even penetrated the middle-class Bohemian district of Cihangir, where they beat drums and defiantly chanted the name of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.