{"id":76994,"date":"2026-04-10T14:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/10\/xi-jinping-cheng-li-wu-china-taiwan-meeting-bejing"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:06:30","slug":"xi-tells-taiwan-opposition-leader-people-on-both-sides-of-strait-are-chinese-in-rare-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76994","title":{"rendered":"Xi tells Taiwan opposition leader people on both sides of strait are Chinese in rare meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheng Li-wun\u2019s visit to Beijing has sparked controversy in Taiwan, with critics accusing her of being too close to China<\/p>\n<p>In a rare meeting with Taiwan\u2019s opposition leader, China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, declared that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait were Chinese and wanted peace.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting in Beijing between Xi and Cheng Li-wun, the chair of Taiwan\u2019s Kuomintang (KMT), is the first such contact in a decade. The visit has sparked controversy in Taiwan, with Cheng\u2019s critics accusing her of being too close to China, a country that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/06\/what-us-action-in-venezuela-means-for-taiwan\">many in Taiwan see as a threat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/10\/xi-jinping-cheng-li-wu-china-taiwan-meeting-bejing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheng Li-wun\u2019s visit to Beijing has sparked controversy in Taiwan, with critics accusing her of being too close to ChinaIn a rare meeting with Taiwan\u2019s opposition leader, China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, declared that people on both sides of the Taiwan S&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76995,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76994\/revisions\/76995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}