Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping met with Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan's Kuomintang opposition party, in Beijing. This meeting is notable as it marks a high-level political exchange between Taiwan's opposition leadership and the mainland Chinese Communist Party.

Communist Party chief Xi Jinping met Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), in Beijing on Friday. Their meeting marked the first time a sitting KMT chairperson had met with the Communist Party leadership since November 2016, when then-KMT chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu visited the mainland. Cheng has described her six-day trip, which began on Tuesday in Shanghai, as a “journey of peace”. During her visits to Shanghai and Nanjing, she repeatedly emphasised...