Cheng Li-wun

Today, Cheng runs the KMT from its Taipei headquarters, where her chairperson’s office boasts the eclectic talismans of her unconventional journey: a cuddly kangaroo, a model Xiaomi electric car, and a jade Buddha statue guarding her desk

Taiwan announces $6.7 bln plan for military drones

The group approved the name change at a plenary meeting in Tokyo

KMT chair Cheng Li-wun’s visit follows a recent meeting with Xi Jinping but she has a tough task selling her cross-strait vision in America

Helicopters fly with Taiwan’s national flag during an inauguration celebration of President Lai Ching-te in Taipei in 2024

As Washington pressures Taiwan to spend big on defenses against a potential Chinese attack, one of the island’s most outspoken politicians is arguing the opposite approach: less confrontation and more dialogue

Taiwanese industry groups and businesses have broadly welcomed Beijing’s package of 10 measures to promote cross-strait exchanges across economic sectors

Its latest achievement was hosting Cheng Li-wun, the chairwoman of Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) opposition party, from 7-12 April 2026

Taiwan's Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung urged democratic nations to treat the First Island Chain as a unified strategic front

Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of the Chinese Kuomintang party, led a delegation to the Zhongguancun National Innovation Demonstration Zone Exhibition Center in Beijing, on Saturday, hailing its limitless future

Cheng led a delegation to visit Tsinghua University High School in Beijing on Friday

They posed for photos at the Great Hall of the People and exchanged public remarks, in addition to holding their closed-door meeting

On Saturday morning, Cheng led a KMT delegation to the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, located within Biyun Temple at Xiangshan, or the Fragrant Hills, on Beijing's northwestern outskirts

At the invitation of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping, Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of the Chinese Kuomintang party, began her visit to the Chinese mainland on Tuesday

Cheng Li-wun, the head of Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang (KMT), is leading a delegation to China from April 7 to 12

Trump: Iran’s civilisation will die tonight

Taiwanese opposition leader Cheng Li-wun blamed Japanese “imperialist forces” for dividing mainland China and Taiwan, as she paid tribute to Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen at his mausoleum in Nanjing on Wednesday

The dramatic rhetoric came with roughly 12 hours remaining before Trump's self-imposed 8 p.m. EDT deadline for Iran to reopen the vital waterway, through which roughly one-fifth of global oil supplies pass

China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own

The KMT has long advocated for closer relations with China, which claims Taiwan is part of its territory and has threated to use force to seize it

It will also be a defining step for Cheng, 56, who took the reins of the party — also known as the Kuomintang or KMT — in November, in a political about-face that has made her a divisive figure in Taiwan, a self-ruling democracy that rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims

KMT chairwoman Cheng Li-wun is set to go to mainland China with a delegation from April 7 to 12 on a trip that could include a meeting with Communist Party leader Xi Jinping

Donald Trump’s primetime address on Wednesday evening provided little clarity on the US’s strategy in its war against Iran

Beijing refuses to speak to Taiwan President Lai Ching-te

For the last few months, a plan by President Lai Ching-te of Taiwan to increase military spending by $40 billion over eight years has been held up by his political rivals

Kharg Island is a small rocky island located about 15 nautical miles (24 km) off Iran’s coast

Kuomintang (KMT) chairperson Cheng Li-wun, who took up her role in November, has insisted on meeting Xi before she makes an official trip to the United States, drawing criticism from inside and outside her party that she is too pro-China

Trump's latest threat also mentions Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub, which he suggested U.S. troops could seize in an interview with the Financial Times published early Monday

The ministry report on Monday comes as lawmakers began formal discussions on a proposed NT$1.25 trillion (US$40 billion) special defence budget

A plan by the chairwoman of Taiwan’s main opposition party to visit Beijing — where she hopes to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping — early this year carries hopes of improving communication amid high tension between the two sides of the strait