On rare China visit, Taiwan’s opposition leader calls for reconciliation
KMT chief Cheng Li-wun, the party’s first leader to visit China in a decade, hopes to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.

KMT chief Cheng Li-wun, the party’s first leader to visit China in a decade, hopes to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.










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Han Shen Lin, director of the China Office at the Asia Consultative Group, says that China is likely to remain neutral,
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US spy agencies says Chinese leadership still prefers to pursue unification with Taiwan ‘without use of force’.

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