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Cheng Li-wun

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Cheng Li-wun
鄭麗文
The latest news and top stories on Cheng Li-wun, a former Taiwanese lawmaker and candidate for the Kuomintang (KMT) leadership. She has a background in law and international relations, holding degrees from National Taiwan University, Temple University and the University of Cambridge.
Taiwan’s legislature will need a two-thirds majority to impeach William Lai. Photo: EPA-EFE
Taiwan

Taiwan’s lawmakers vote to start impeachment process against William Lai

Opposition-controlled legislature will hold a series of hearings before a formal vote in May.

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SCMP Highlights

China, Russia clash with US at UN; Taipei mayor visit: SCMP daily highlights

US-China relations

Beijing is pinning hopes for Taiwan reunification on KMT – but not all of them

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Taiwan

Opinion | Momentum for peaceful reunification across Taiwan Strait is growing

Recent shifts in Taiwan’s political environment and international attitudes suggest the time is right for cross-strait engagement.

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Taiwan

Taiwan RedNote ban backfires, driving mainland Chinese app’s top download rise

Many users and opposition politicians accuse Taiwan’s ruling party of overreach and damaging island’s reputation for open internet access.

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Taiwan

Taiwan blocks mainland Chinese platform RedNote citing ‘high fraud risk’

Island’s digital affairs ministry says five Chinese apps collect sensitive data, access biometric functions and ‘extract system information’.

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Taiwan

Taiwan on edge amid Beijing fury over Takaichi’s ‘survival-threat’ remarks

Island now at risk of becoming a flashpoint in confrontation between two major world powers, opposition says.

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Local newspapers report on Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s recent remarks on Taiwan at a newsstand in Beijing on Monday. Photo: AP
Taiwan

Opinion | The Busan silence: how great-power pragmatism is rewriting Taiwan’s future

With time on Beijing’s side for reunification and the US more focused on deals, a quiet understanding on Taiwan could harden into routine.

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China-Japan relations

Beijing summons Japanese ambassador in latest protest over PM’s Taiwan comments

Chinese foreign ministry calls Japanese leader’s remarks ‘egregiously wrong’ and urges Tokyo ‘to immediately correct itself’.

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Taiwan

US invites Taiwan KMT chief to Washington, stresses top priority to ‘avoid war’

De facto ambassador Raymond Greene meets opposition party’s new chairwoman two weeks after the Xi-Trump summit in Busan.

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Raymond Greene (left), the de facto US ambassador to Taiwan, met with Cheng Li-wun, the new leader of the KMT, just two weeks after a summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump in Busan last month. Photo: Handout
Vietnam

Letters | Vietnam should expect sterner tests of its diplomatic skills

Readers discuss Hanoi’s feat of securing strong partnerships with major powers, the task awaiting Taiwan’s new KMT chair, and the impact of strict rules on Hong Kong’s street life.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (right) shakes hands with visiting General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam To Lam in Downing Street, London, on October 29. Photo: Pool via AP
Taiwan

Editorial | On Taiwan, the ‘one-China principle’ is the bottom line

Beijing’s designation of October 25 as a day to commemorate Taiwan’s return to Chinese sovereignty sends a telling message.

Taiwan

Can the KMT’s new outspoken chairwoman win over Taiwan’s mainstream voters?

The former legislator’s victory shows she can fire up the party’s base, but her stance on mainland China risks alienating the wider public.

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China’s fourth plenum

Five-year plan, Trump-Xi meeting, Apec summit

This week: China outlines 15th five-year plan, economy on track, and Trump signs critical minerals deal with Australia. Next week: Trump visits Asia and meets Xi in South Korea, interest rates, HSBC results, China-India flights and more.

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Taiwan

Xi congratulates new KMT leader, calls for efforts to ‘advance reunification’

Chinese president says he hopes ‘common political foundation’ can be upheld after Cheng Li-wun is elected as Kuomintang chairperson.

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Cheng Li-wun delivers a speech after winning the KMT leadership vote in Taipei on Saturday. Photo: AP
Taiwan

Taiwan’s opposition KMT has an opportunity, but who will take charge?

Few in the Kuomintang appear keen to take on the leadership – a job described as ‘a hot potato that no one wants to touch’.

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