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Xi Meets Taiwan Opposition Leader Cheng in Beijing for First Time in a Decade

The rare encounter signals Beijing's push to shape cross-strait politics through Taiwan's opposition.

A television shows the meeting between Kuomintang (KMT) chairwoman Cheng Li-wun and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, at a restaurant in Taipei on April 10, 2026.
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Overview

  • Xi Jinping met Kuomintang chair Cheng Li-wun in Beijing on Friday in the first top-level CCP–KMT meeting in about ten years.
  • Both leaders endorsed the 1992 Consensus, a formula that says there is one China with different interpretations, and they said they oppose Taiwan independence.
  • Xi said people on both sides of the strait are Chinese, and Cheng called for steps to avoid war and to keep the strait from becoming a chessboard for outside powers.
  • Taiwan’s government and its National Security Bureau warned the trip fits a united-front tactic that pairs talks with pressure to divide society and weaken support for U.S. arms cooperation.
  • The visit comes as the KMT-led legislature holds up a roughly US$40 billion special defense budget and ahead of a planned mid-May Xi–Trump summit that analysts say Beijing could use to press against U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan.