Taiwan opposition leader looks backward in Beijing trip

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Kuomintang Chairperson Cheng Li-wun is living in the past, even though she believes that by engaging with the Chinese Communist Party on Beijing's terms she can secure a better future for Taiwan.

The leader of Taiwan's largest opposition party made history last week as the first KMT chairperson to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in a decade. "It is my hope that, through the tireless efforts of our two parties, the Taiwan Strait will no longer be a focal point of potential conflict, nor become a chessboard for external interference," Cheng said during her meeting with Xi in Beijing's Great Hall of the People.

"Today's world is far from tranquil, and peace is all the more precious. Compatriots on both sides of the Strait are all Chinese, members of one family," Xi said.