The head of Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang (KMT), Cheng Li-wun, met with China’s leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday morning. The meeting is the first between a KMT chair and the head of the Chinese Communist Party in nearly a decade.
Cheng has said her visit to China is a peace mission, aimed at safeguarding Taiwan and preventing the Taiwan Strait from becoming a war zone.
But lawmakers from Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) say Cheng is sending the “wrong message” to the international community by aligning with Xi’s unification narrative.
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Reporter: Cadence Quaranta/Leslie Liao Videographer: Alison Nguyen Social Reporter: Sara Conway/ Chloe Wang
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