Saadet Gokce
10 April 2026•Update: 10 April 2026
Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed confidence Friday that Taiwan will get together with the mainland as he hosted Taiwanese opposition leader Cheng Li-wun in Beijing and emphasized cooperation.
“Compatriots on both sides are both Chinese, and we need peace, we need development, we need communication, and we need cooperation. This is a common wish,” Xi said, according to the South China Morning Post.
Xi said the historical trend that “compatriots of both sides of the strait will get closer and get together will not change, this is a certainty of history, and we are fully confident.”
The Kuomintang (KMT) party chairwoman visited Jiangsu province and Shanghai before traveling to the capital, according to the state-run news agency Xinhua.
She vowed “reconciliation” and “unity” across the Taiwan Strait during her visit to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, the capital of China’s eastern Jiangsu province.
The last KMT chief to meet with Xi was in 2015, when then-chairman Eric Chu met him in China.
The visit is seen as an important step in dialogue and exchanges between the KMT and China’s Communist Party.
Cheng was elected as chairwoman of the KMT in October 2025.
China considers Taiwan its “breakaway province,” while Taipei has insisted on its independence since 1949.
The visit has also assumed significance as Xi is set to host US President Donald Trump next month.
Separately on Friday, Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te said that the day marks the 47th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act, “which has long served as a cornerstone for Taiwan-US relations.”
In a statement on the US social media company X, he expressed confidence that “our enduring partnership—spanning across security, trade, technology & more—will continue to spur innovation & help safeguard regional peace.”



















