“China’s passage last year of the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, which allowed the prosecution of those who defy its diktats, showed that accepting Xi’s framework would be tantamount to shackling the people of Taiwan,” Dong said. Taipei Medical University professor Chang Kuo-cheng, left, speaks at a seminar in Taipei yesterday. The lure of profits promised by China’s economy for Taiwanese businesspeople is gone, as is the promise of a better life for young Taiwanese workers, he said. Taiwan Thinktank researcher Wu Se-chih (吳瑟致) said that the unilateral narrative of the CCP has become a “KMT-CCP” or “Xi-Cheng” shared narrative. Xi’s and Cheng’s failure to address Beijing’s continued use of military threats against Taiwan underscored the “exchange of empty platitudes” that characterized their meeting, he said.

Source: Taipei Times April 11, 2026 17:13 UTC