Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment.

Hi, welcome to China Uncensored,

I'm your host Chris Chappell.

This is incredible. Almost majestic.

What am I looking at? Show 'em, Shelley.

No, no, no, not that.

This is something even rarer than a dumb old cat.

Shhh. Look!

The first ever meeting of a Chinese and a Taiwanese leader.

But unlike all those unenlightened news photographers with their flashes going off

I'm not going to take the photo

I have video from Reuters.

You know, this was a pretty historic moment though.

On Saturday in Singapore,

Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with Ma Ying-jeou,

the president of Taiwan.

It's the first time this has happened since the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949.

That's when the Communist Party seized control of Mainland China and the Republic of China

government fled to Taiwan.

Now under what's known as the 1992 Consensus,

Taiwan and Mainland China agree that there is only One China…

to rule them all, one China to find them, one China to bring them all and in the darkness

bind them.

Uh, I mean, there is officially only one nation called China,

and Taiwan is a part of that.

It's just both sides say they're the legitimate government of the whole thing.

This has caused some tensions in the past.

Made worse by the Communist Party's threats to invade,

if Taiwan ever tries to declare that it's an independent country.

In fact, China's People's Liberation Army reportedly has thousands of missiles pointed

at Taiwan.

And earlier this year,

the People's Liberation Army even staged a mock invasion of the Taiwan presidential palace.

And that's why it's so incredible to see Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou shaking hands on

the same stage.

Even though they share the same language, history, and culture

Taiwan and Mainland China couldn't be more different.

Like they were from different planets.

Deep in space lies an imperfect duplicate of earth known as the bizarro world.

On this topsy turvy world lies weird duplicates of the citizens of metropolis,

including the city's most famous super hero.

Yes, it me. Bizarro Number 1.

Taiwan and China are basically like Superman and Bizarro Superman.

Taiwan has beautiful, clear waters.

Mainland China has filthy, toxic sludge.

Taiwan has freedom of the press.

Mainland China has the freedom to be oppressed.

Taiwan has a president, and, wait,

so does Mainland China!

Only the people didn't vote for this president.

Doesn't stop there either.

After the meeting, both Xi and Ma held press conferences.

But one was not like the other.

Reporters asked Ma the tough questions,

and he responded the way a democratically elected leader typically responds

with bold-faced lies.

Xi Jinping, however, didn't even show up at the mainland China press conference.

Instead, China's minister of Taiwan Affairs Office went up against,

softball questions from Chinese state-run media.

Of course if you live in Mainland China,

you wouldn't have see how a democratically elected Mandarin speaking president deals

with tough questions from a free press,

because state-run television didn't show it.

So what did this meeting accomplish?

Well, there were no joint statements given,

and no agreements made.

So you might be asking yourself,

why did it even happen?

That's a good question.

Since Ma Ying-jeou became president in 2008,

he's helped bring the two nations closer together than ever before.

This has not been too popular inside of Taiwan,

where some view him as basically cozying up with the enemy,

that, you know, has thousands of missiles aimed at Taiwan…or at the general direction

of Taiwan.

But tourism, trade, and economic exchange have risen dramatically.

The up side of this is that people from Mainland China have a chance to see the non-Bizzaro

version of their country.

The down side is that some in Taiwan see the economic ties as simply another form of invasion

by the Mainland, just without the bullets.

That's one of the reasons why it looks like Taiwan's opposition party, the DPP,

is poised to defeat Ma Ying-jeou's KMT party in the upcoming January elections.

The DPP has always taken a harder line with Beijing.

Xi's meeting with Ma probably won't change the likelihood of the DPP's candidate getting

elected.

But having good relations with the Taiwan government will probably help the Chinese

Communist Party as it alienates basically every other one of its other neighbors over

territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Because, since there's only "One China,"

Mainland China and Taiwan by definition make the same outlandish territorial claims.

As for Ma, well,

he's the first president of Taiwan to ever meet with his bizarro counterpart.

Place in history books secured.

So what do you think of the meeting? Leave your comments below and be sure too...

Who are you?!

Me Bizzaro Chris. Bizarro Number 1.