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Cross-strait ties are ‘not state-to-state’, KMT vice-chair tells senior Beijing official

The relationship between mainland China and Taiwan is not one of state-to-state relations, Chang Rong-kung, vice-chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT), the island’s main opposition part...

Will Cheng Li-wun’s meeting with Xi Jinping temper cross-strait ties?

The high-profile talks between leaders of the Communist Party and the Kuomintang are a step towards cross-strait stability despite the KMT’s opposition status in Taiwan, according...

Takaichi and Macron discuss cross-strait peace

Taiwan’s Cheng Li-wun on cross-strait peace, meeting Xi Jinping and managing ties with US

Cheng Li-wun is the chairwoman of Taiwan’s largest opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT). In this far-ranging interview, she discusses her vision for peace and cooperation between...

Beijing pledges better Taiwan air and travel links after KMT leader’s mainland China trip

Beijing has promised to restore direct flights between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan following a visit by the leader of the main opposition party. The 10-point measures, which al...

Taiwan, US still on same page about Strait, experts say

Beijing’s 10 measures to boost cross-strait ties

This document was translated from Chinese into English using Alibaba’s Qwen3.6-Plus, then checked and tweaked for accuracy by a South China Morning Post journalist. It is for refer...

Taiwanese opposition leader Cheng Li-wun begins ‘journey of peace’ in Shanghai

Taiwanese opposition leader Cheng Li-wun said she hoped to make the Taiwan Strait “safe” and not one of the world’s “most dangerous places” as she left for Shanghai on Tuesday. Kuo...

China says to boost Taiwan exchanges as opposition leader ends visit

Beijing cut off high-level contact with Taipei after the 2016 victory of the Democratic Progressive Party, which remains in power and rejects Beijing's territorial claims.

中国が重視、34年前の台湾との「合意」とは　国共トップ会談で注目

China says it will resume some ties with Taiwan including more direct flights

BANGKOK — China said Sunday it would resume some ties it had suspended with Taiwan such as direct flights to cities across China and imports of Taiwanese aquaculture products as th...

Xi tells Taiwan opposition leader people on both sides of strait are Chinese in rare meeting

Cheng Li-wun’s visit to Beijing has sparked controversy in Taiwan, with critics accusing her of being too close to ChinaIn a rare meeting with Taiwan’s opposition leader, China’s p...

Friendly Strangers: How Two Peoples Across the Taiwan Strait Are Drifting Apart

The populations of China and Taiwan are drifting apart in ways that will be structurally hard to reverse.

Xi Jinping tells Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun ‘we need peace’

In a historic meeting between Communist Party chief Xi Jinping and the head of Taiwan’s main opposition party, Beijing outlined a vision of peaceful relations with the island, shar...

Hope for Taiwan in two Koreas

Taiwan industries cheer Beijing’s 10-point plan to boost cross-strait ties

Taiwanese industry groups and businesses have broadly welcomed Beijing’s package of 10 measures to promote cross-strait exchanges across economic sectors. They said the proposals f...

Xi seeks to cement Taiwan at core of its ties with US

Takeaways from Cheng Li-wun’s press conference about meeting with Xi Jinping

Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan’s biggest opposition party, the Kuomintang, highlighted the need for peace as she spoke to the media in Beijing on Friday afternoon after her his...

Why overtures by President Xi, KMT chair to other Taiwanese parties are unlikely to see breakthrough

In his meeting with visiting Kuomintang (KMT) leader Cheng Li-wun on Friday (Apr 10), Chinese President Xi Jinping said he was willing to work with all political parties in Taiwan...

Xi Jinping stresses ‘patience’ on Taiwan reunification in talks with opposition leader

Communist Party chief Xi Jinping appears to be taking a patient approach to reunification with Taiwan, according to the island’s opposition leader and a member of her delegation wh...

Xi Meeting With KMT Chair Cheng Li-wun Signals Shift Toward ‘Peaceful Reunification,’ Taipei-based Experts Say

Communist China hopes to win Taiwan over by cultivating pro-Beijing proxies, while keeping up threat of military invasion

KMT’s ‘imperialist’ rhetoric shifts Taiwan’s democratic fault line

Words matter in cross-strait politics. Every phrase is weighed, every omission noticed. So when Kuomintang (KMT) chairwoman Cheng Li-wun described “imperialist forces” as the cause...

Taiwan Opposition Leader Cheng Li-wun to Meet China’s Xi

Cheng Li-wun accepting summit invite plays into Beijing’s ‘one China’ narrative, experts say

Taiwan opposition's Cheng grabs reins of Beijing relations with China tour