{"id":46772,"date":"2026-04-10T15:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=46772"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:03:26","slug":"why-overtures-by-president-xi-kmt-chair-to-other-taiwanese-parties-are-unlikely-to-see-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=46772","title":{"rendered":"Why overtures by President Xi, KMT chair to other Taiwanese parties are unlikely to see breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Cheng also framed cross-strait engagement as a broader responsibility beyond party lines, during the meeting as well as in her comments to the media afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>The issue should not be treated as \u201ca tool for partisan competition or electoral manoeuvring\u201d but as \u201ca choice between peace and war\u201d, she said &#8211; urging all political parties in Taiwan to \u201cset aside differences \u2026 and work together for peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng also said Xi had shown \u201csignificant goodwill\u201d and added that such exchanges \u201care certainly not limited to the Kuomintang and the Communist Party\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She added that she hoped the Taiwan Strait would &#8220;no longer be a focal point of potential conflict&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both sides should transcend political confrontation \u2026 and seek a systemic solution to prevent and avoid war, so that the Taiwan Strait can become a model for peaceful conflict resolution in the world,&#8221; she said in comments carried by Taiwanese media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>China views Taiwan as a renegade province that must eventually be reunified with the mainland, and has not ruled out the use of force to achieve that goal.<\/p>\n<h2>OUTREACH WITH CONDITIONS<\/h2>\n<p>Analysts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/east-asia\/kmt-chair-china-trip-signals-beijing-washington-taipei-6036701\">told CNA<\/a> that Xi\u2019s remarks point to a broadening of Beijing\u2019s outreach on paper, but one with tight conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing is willing to engage beyond the KMT &#8211; but only within its defined political framework, said James Chen, an assistant professor of diplomacy and international relations at Tamkang University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cXi (said he is opening) the door broadly to engage with Taiwan regardless of political affiliation &#8211; if the ruling DPP chair Lai Ching-te accepts the political basis, he too would be welcome in Beijing,\u201d Chen noted, referring to Taiwanese President William Lai.<\/p>\n<p>But such willingness to engage is limited in practice, noted Chong Ja Ian, an associate professor from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and non-resident scholar at Carnegie China.<\/p>\n<p>The DPP has also said that they are \u201cwilling to engage the CCP &#8211; but with no preconditions\u201d, Chong said. \u201cThat is not something that the CCP (would be) willing to accept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo unless the DPP is willing to accept the CCP\u2019s conditions, or the CCP is willing to not be consistent on its conditions, that gap remains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that domestic political incentives in Taiwan also make a shift unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at opinion polls \u2026 the KMT didn\u2019t have that much support for it,\u201d Chong said, referring to past high-level cross-strait engagement. \u201cIf it\u2019s more or less the same, then the DPP will have very little incentive to try to do anything different.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/east-asia\/china-xi-jinping-kmt-taiwan-beijing-visit-analysts-6049196\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheng also framed cross-strait engagement as a broader responsibility beyond party lines, during the meeting as well as in her comments to the media afterwards. 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