00:00Chinese President Xi Jinping has invited the leader of Taiwan's largest opposition party to visit China for the first time
00:07in a decade.
00:09Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wen, who has advocated for closer ties to Beijing, will travel to China from April 7
00:16to 12.
00:19Cheng has been vocal about wanting to meet Xi since taking the post as KMT leader in October.
00:25The KMT advocates closer economic ties and more exchanges with Beijing, which claims self-ruling Taiwan as its own territory.
00:33But there are concerns within the party that a meeting with Xi could set a voter backlash in motion in
00:39Taiwan's district elections, due to be held later this year.
00:43China refuses to speak to the government of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, who Beijing deems a separatist.
00:49However, it regularly welcomes senior KMT officials.
00:53Cheng's visit to China will be the first by a sitting KMT chairperson since 2016.
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