BEIJING, April 10, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - China's President Xi Jinping met Taiwan's opposition party leader Cheng Li-wun in Beijing on Friday, telling the visiting delegation he had "full confidence" that Taiwanese and Chinese people would be united. Cheng told Xi she hoped the Taiwan Strait would "no longer be a focal point of potential conflict". - Defence spending -Cheng's trip comes a month before US President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Beijing for a summit with Xi. While KMT party members regularly fly to China for exchanges with officials, its last leader to visit was Hung Hsiu-chu in 2016. Cheng landed in Shanghai on Tuesday evening, saying shortly after her arrival that "the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are not doomed to war, as the international community has feared".

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha April 10, 2026 06:11 UTC