{"id":579630,"date":"2026-04-12T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579630\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:11:07","slug":"china-says-it-will-resume-some-ties-with-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579630\/","title":{"rendered":"China says it will resume some ties with Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

BANGKOK (AP) \u2014 China said Sunday it would resume some ties it had suspended with Taiwan such as direct flights and imports of Taiwanese aquaculture products following a visit by the Beijing-friendly opposition leader of the self-ruled island. <\/p>\n

The Taiwan Work Office under China\u2019s Communist Party issued a statement saying it would explore setting up a longstanding communication mechanism between the Communist Party and Taiwan\u2019s Kuomingtang Party. It said it will facilitate the import of Taiwan\u2019s aquaculture products that it had previously banned. <\/p>\n

Cheng Li-wun, the head of the Kuomingtang, and China\u2019s President Xi Jinping held a high-profile meeting<\/a> Friday during which they called for peace, without offering specifics. China claims the island as part of its territory and hasn\u2019t ruled out the use of force to annex it. <\/p>\n

Taiwan\u2019s Mainland Affairs Council, which oversees the relationship with China, said the measures that were announced, such as promoting a communication mechanism, were \u201cpolitical transactions\u201d between the two parties that circumvented the government of Taiwan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government\u2019s position is clear: to ensure the interests of the nation and its people, all Cross-Strait affairs involving public power must be negotiated by both governments on an equal and dignified basis to be effective and truly protect the rights and well-being of the people,\u201d the Mainland Affairs Council said in response to the Chinese announcement. <\/p>\n

Relations between China and Taiwan, which remain split since 1949, have been tense since the election of pro-independence President Tsai Ing-wen from the Democratic Progressive Party in 2016. Beijing cut off most of its official dialogue with Taiwan\u2019s government, and has started sending warships and fighter jets closer toward the island on a daily basis. <\/p>\n

In the statement, China said it plans to resume direct flights between Taiwan and mainland cities like Xi\u2019an or Urumqi, although it remained unclear how the measures will be implemented without the approval of the Taiwanese government. <\/p>\n

China banned its citizens from individual trips<\/a> to Taiwan in 2019. Taiwan\u2019s rules now require Chinese visitors to hold a valid resident visa from another country, like the U.S. or the European Union, to apply for a visitor visa. <\/p>\n

China also said it would work toward construction of a bridge that would connect the mainland to Matsu and Kinmen, Taiwanese islands that are closer geographically to China. The project is a longstanding proposal that Beijing has previously announced. <\/p>\n

China banned the import of Taiwanese pineapples in 2021, and since then has extended it to other fruits and products including the grouper fish, squid and tuna.<\/p>\n

After the initial ban on grouper, Taiwan\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture said it approached China about making adjustments to ensure it met import requirements. China replied with a limited list of individual companies that were allowed to sell to China, but without explanation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANGKOK (AP) \u2014 China said Sunday it would resume some ties it had suspended with Taiwan such as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1927,1204,3327,1020,793,3,111,3998,188904,254316,21,19,22,20,25,24,965,6132],"class_list":{"0":"post-579630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ap-top-news","10":"tag-asia-pacific","11":"tag-china-government","12":"tag-communism","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-taiwan","17":"tag-taiwan-government","18":"tag-tsai-ing-wen","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-world-news","26":"tag-xi-jinping"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}