Honorary chairman of Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party Lien Chan (2nd L), Chen Yunlin (L), Chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and Director of China's Taiwan Affairs Office Wang Yi (R) attend a ceremony celebrating the first direct sea transport across the strait at Tianjin Port in northern China December 15, 2008. Political rivals China and Taiwan began direct air, sea transport and postal services on Monday for the first time since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA)