TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - More than 100 Chinese tourists have arrived in Taiwan on the first regularly scheduled flight from the mainland to the island in nearly six decades. The China Southern Airlines flight from Guangzhou was the first of nine Chinese charter flights scheduled to land in Taiwan Friday. Taiwan's China Airlines also flew more than 300 Taiwanese on a charter flight to Shanghai earlier. The regular weekend flights are part of a warming in relations between China and Taiwan, which split in 1949 amid a civil war. China claims the island as part of its territory. Taiwan barred direct travel for decades as a security measure, but in recent years has allowed limited charter flights on Chinese holidays that skip the usual stopovers in Hong Kong or other transit...
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