New Delhi, April 12 -- China announced on Sunday it would restore several suspended ties with Taiwan, including direct flights to additional mainland cities and imports of Taiwanese aquaculture products, following a high-profile meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and the leader of Taiwan's main opposition party - a gesture that signals a carefully calibrated thaw in one of Asia's most persistently fraught relationships.

The Taiwan Work Office under China's Communist Party issued a formal statement outlining the measures Beijing is prepared to restore. Direct flights between Taiwan and mainland cities including Xi'an and Urumqi are set to resume, expanding a air connectivity that had been progressively curtailed as cross-strait ...