Chinese Nationalist Party Chair Cheng Li-wun, right, announced on Monday that she has been invited to visit China and meet with officials, including Chinese leader Xi Jinping. That gives the CCP dominance and means Cheng and the KMT cannot adequately prepare and have given away much of their leverage. On Monday, Cheng expressed hope that this trip would lay a solid first step toward enduring and sustainable peace across the Strait. The catch is that, as she herself notes, those have already been formally written into the KMT party charter. Donovan’s Deep Dives is a regular column by Courtney Donovan Smith (石東文) who writes in-depth analysis on everything about Taiwan’s political scene and geopolitics.

Source: Taipei Times April 01, 2026 17:12 UTC