Cheng Li-wun hopes the people of Taiwan can be proud to be Chinese, accuses the United States of using the self-governing island as an ATM and wants to cut defence spending.
Last Saturday she was elected chair of Taiwan’s main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT) and the following day she received a message of congratulation from Xi Jinping.
The KMT fought a civil war against the Communist Party before fleeing to Taiwan and establishing the Republic of China there in 1949. But the party wants friendlier relations with Beijing and Xi said he hoped they could work together to oppose any
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