KMT chairwoman quiet on reported summit with CCPStaff writer, with CNAChinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) has remained tight-lipped on a reported summit with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) late this month and a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平), saying only that any talks would “not be conducted in secret.”Online news site Meihua Media on Friday reported that the KMT and the CCP are set to resume their long-suspended dialogue — the Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Culture Forum, better known as the “KMT-CCP Forum” — from Jan. 27 to 29 in Beijing. The KMT delegation would be led by party Vice Chairman Hsiao Hsu-tsen (蕭旭岑), the report said, citing anonymous sources. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun, center, speaks to reporters in Taichung on Saturday. Cheng said that she had sensed a spirit of “sincerity and goodwill” from Beijing regarding cross-strait communication since she became KMT chair in November last year, prompting the KMT to prepare for resumed exchanges. Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesman Lee Kuen-cheng (李坤城) dismissed Cheng’s plan to revive the KMT-CCP Forum as a move to “test the waters” for a potential meeting with Xi.

Source: Taipei Times January 11, 2026 16:05 UTC