Overview
- Cheng Li-wun of Taiwan’s Kuomintang accepted Xi Jinping’s invitation and will visit China from April 7 to 12 with stops in Beijing, Shanghai, and Jiangsu.
- The KMT said Cheng aims to promote peaceful cross-strait development, expand exchanges and cooperation, and support stability in the Taiwan Strait.
- China refuses to engage President Lai Ching-te’s government, yet it hosts senior KMT figures, reflecting a channel that sidesteps official contacts with Taipei.
- Both Xinhua and the KMT referred to Xi by his Communist Party title, signaling a party-to-party framing rather than a state-to-state interaction.
- The schedule places the visit about a month before President Donald Trump’s planned mid-May summit in Beijing.