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Taiwan ruling party chief heads to China for Xi meeting
View(s):TAIPEI, May 2 (AFP) -The head of Taiwan’s ruling party departed today for a high-profile visit to China, in the first visit to the mainland by a Kuomintang chief since 2008.
Eric Chu, chairman of the KMT, is set to attend an annual trade forum in Shanghai at the weekend before meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday.
He has promised to raise the issue of the Taiwanese public’s growing unease over mainland China’s influence on the island, while Taiwan’s bid to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is also on the agenda.
No peace accord with Beijing will be discussed, however.