Will Cheng Li-wun’s meeting with Xi Jinping temper cross-strait ties?

LC Lawrence Chung,Amber WangSouth China Morning PostFiled 2026-04-10 · 13:00 GMTLean · Center-RightRead · 1 min

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Communist Party leader Xi Jinping met with Kuomintang (KMT) chairwoman Cheng Li-wun in Beijing on Friday, marking the first high-level meeting between the two parties' leaders in almost a decade. The talks between the leaders of the Communist Party and the KMT, Taiwan's opposition party, are viewed by observers as a step toward cross-strait stability. Analysts in both mainland China and Taiwan believe the meeting signals a potential revival of engagement mechanisms between the two sides. The meeting's significance and implications are subject to differing interpretations among analysts.

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The meeting was the first between leaders of the two parties in nearly a decade.

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Cheng Li-wun met with Xi Jinping in Beijing.

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Analysts broadly agreed that the encounter signalled a revival of cross-strait engagement mechanisms.

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Observers say the talks are a step towards cross-strait stability.

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The high-profile talks between leaders of the Communist Party and the Kuomintang are a step towards Cross-Strait stability despite the KMT’s opposition status in Taiwan, according to observers.Communist Party chief Xi Jinping and KMT chairwoman Cheng Li-wun met in Beijing on Friday in the first such talks between the sitting leaders of the two parties in nearly a decade.Analysts in Mainland China and Taiwan broadly agreed that the encounter signalled a revival of Cross-Strait engagement mechanisms, though they differed on its implications.

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