By Richard Halloran
Peace broke out yesterday along the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference here.
President Truong Tan Sang of Vietnam, with which the United States fought a long and bitter war that ended in 1973, said his nation was ready to take an already robust reconciliation with America to the next level and to forge a strategic partnership between Washington and Hanoi.
And the leader of Taiwan's delegation to the APEC gathering, Dr. Lien Chan, held a cordial meeting with President Hu Jintao of China and told the press later he had urged the Chinese leader to agree to negotiate a peace treaty that would end 90 years of rivalry between the Nationalists and the Communists.
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