Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun, center, right, offers flowers on her visit to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, China, yesterday. Photo: EPA / Chinese Nationalist Party“We should work together to promote reconciliation and unity across the [Taiwan] Strait, and create regional prosperity and peace,” she said. Cheng says she is on a mission of peace and that while she supports defense spending, it has to be balanced with dialogue. “The two sides of the Taiwan Strait are not doomed to war, as the international community has feared,” Cheng had said in a speech on Tuesday evening after arriving in China. China severed high-level contact with Taiwan in 2016 after Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) of the Democratic Progressive Party was elected president.

Source: Taipei Times April 08, 2026 17:13 UTC