Overview
- China announced a 10-point package on Sunday, following Kuomintang chair Cheng Li-wun’s mainland visit and meeting with Xi Jinping, to expand travel, trade and cultural exchanges.
- The plan explores a regular communication channel between the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang and permits select Taiwanese TV dramas, documentaries and animation that meet content rules.
- Officials outlined steps to restore more direct flights, resume individual tours for residents of Shanghai and Fujian, ease entry for Taiwan farm, fishery and food products after past bans, and study links to Kinmen and Matsu.
- Taiwan’s defense ministry reported 16 Chinese military aircraft operating near the island during Friday’s Xi–Cheng meeting, underscoring what Taipei officials describe as pressure paired with outreach.
- Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council and President Lai Ching-te criticized Cheng’s framing as risky for foreign support and renewed calls to pass a supplementary defense budget stalled in the legislature.