For the first time in more than 66 years, the leaders of both China and Taiwan met face-to-face last Saturday. The meeting was without a doubt symbolic, and unfortunately that seem to be just that. Symbolic. While both sides affirmed the 1992 Consensus that has kept the peace, the meeting largely consisted of an exchange of hands, niceties and vague promises. The ensuing press conference and reaction back in each leaders’ respective homelands was, however, much more revealing.