China recognises Taiwan as an equal?

No one is saying anything. Yet the facts speak for themselves. By signing an agreement in Beijing between the government of Taiwan and the government of China on direct flights between Beijing and Taipeh, China has de facto recognised that Taiwan is a sovereign and independent state! Let Beijing bluster and threaten but in the end like it or not, China has recongised as an equal on the international chessboard Taiwan as a state in its own right!