00:00Taiwan's opposition leader has arrived in China for a six-day visit at the invitation of President Xi Jinping,
00:07saying she hopes to be a bridge for peace.
00:10Cheng Li-Wun, who took over as chairperson of the Kuomintang or KMT party last year, expected to meet Xi
00:16later in his trip.
00:20The visit which will span Shanghai, Nanjing and Beijing,
00:24makes Cheng the KMT's first incumbent chief to visit China in a decade.
00:28Xi's invitation to her comes weeks before he is due to meet President Donald Trump,
00:33who is scheduled to visit Beijing on May 14 and 15.
00:37While the US maintains formal ties with Beijing rather than Taipei,
00:41it has for decades remained the island's biggest arms supplier.
00:45Beijing has meanwhile cut off some communications with Taiwan since 2016
00:49after the Democratic Progressive Party's DPP Tsai Ing-wen became president.
00:54It has cited Xi's refusal to endorse the one-China principle
00:58where Beijing claims Taiwan as part of its territory.
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