{"id":48588,"date":"2026-04-12T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48588"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:15:14","slug":"china-offers-incentives-to-taiwan-following-opposition-leaders-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48588","title":{"rendered":"China offers incentives to Taiwan following opposition leader\u2019s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/04\/12170911de07633.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>China on Sunday unveiled 10 new incentive measures for Taiwan, including easing tourist curbs, allowing in \u201chealthy\u201d television \u200bdramas and facilitating food sales, following a visit by the island\u2019s opposition \u200cleader.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes at the end of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1989664\">trip to China<\/a> by Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of the Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan\u2019s largest opposition party. She met Chinese President Xi Jinping and talked about \u200bthe need for peace and reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 measures, unveiled by the official <em>\u200bXinhua<\/em> news agency, \u201cexplore\u201d the establishment of a regular communication mechanism between \u2060the KMT and China\u2019s Communist Party, the full resumption of flights between the \u200btwo sides and permission for individuals from Shanghai and Fujian province to visit Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>A \u200bmechanism will be established to ease inspection standards for food and fishery products, but that has to be on the political foundation of \u201copposing Taiwan independence,\u201d <em>Xinhua<\/em> said.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwanese TV dramas, documentaries and \u200banimation will be allowed to be shown as long as they have \u201ccorrect orientation, \u200bhealthy content, and high production quality,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s Mainland Affairs Council, which is in charge of \u200cthe \u2060island\u2019s China policy, said in a statement that Beijing\u2019s so-called \u201cunilateral concessions\u201d are merely poisoned pills packaged as \u201cgenerous gift packages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Taiwanese government supports healthy and orderly cross-strait exchanges, but they should not be subject to political preconditions or objectives, it said.<\/p>\n<p>In a \u200bstatement, the KMT welcomed \u200bChina\u2019s announcement, saying \u2060it was a \u201cgift\u201d to the people of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>China refuses to speak to Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, saying he is a \u201cseparatist.\u201d He \u200brejects Beijing\u2019s sovereignty claims over the democratically governed island.<\/p>\n<p>China and \u200bTaiwan have \u2060blamed each other for the lack of a resumption of large-scale Chinese tourism to the island since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has also previously complained about \u2060Chinese \u200brestrictions on imports of certain agricultural and aquatic products, \u200bsaying China has in some cases used unjustified excuses to stop the spread of pests and diseases.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1991085\/china-offers-incentives-to-taiwan-following-opposition-leaders-visit\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China on Sunday unveiled 10 new incentive measures for Taiwan, including easing tourist curbs, allowing in \u201chealthy\u201d television \u200bdramas and facilitating food sales, following a visit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}