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For the first time in almost 10 years, the chairperson of the KMT party has been invited to visit the mainland.
The CPC Central Committee and its General Secretary President Xi Jinping have invited Cheng Li Wen,
chairperson of the Chinese Kuomintang party, to visit the Chinese mainland from April the 7th to the 12th.
A CPC official announced on Monday.
Sung Tao, head of the Taiwan Work Office of the CPC Central Committee,
was authorized to announce that Chen is welcome to lead a KMT delegation to visit Jiangsu,
Shanghai and Beijing on the mainland.
So noted that since taking office, Chen has expressed her willingness to visit the mainland on multiple occasions
and that the invitation was extended to promote the relations between the CPC and the KMT and the Peaceful Development.
Of cross-strait relations.
Why is the meeting happening now?
What signals does it send to both sides and to the wider world?
And how might it reshape the trajectory of cross-strait relations?
Welcome to this edition of The Point with me, Li Xin, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing.
I'm pleased to be joined from Las Cruces, U.S.
By Kenneth Hammond, professor of history at New Mexico State University.
From Suzhou in East China's Jiangsu province by Victor Gao,
chair professor at Suzhou University, and here in the studio in Beijing by Anna Tangen,
senior fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation.