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  "path": "/news/1991085/china-offers-incentives-to-taiwan-following-opposition-leaders-visit",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-12T12:28:16.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.dawn.com",
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  "textContent": "China on Sunday unveiled 10 new incentive measures for Taiwan, including easing tourist curbs, allowing in “healthy” television ​dramas and facilitating food sales, following a visit by the island’s opposition ‌leader.\n\nThe move comes at the end of a trip to China by Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of the Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan’s largest opposition party. She met Chinese President Xi Jinping and talked about ​the need for peace and reconciliation.\n\nThe 10 measures, unveiled by the official _​Xinhua_ news agency, “explore” the establishment of a regular communication mechanism between ⁠the KMT and China’s Communist Party, the full resumption of flights between the ​two sides and permission for individuals from Shanghai and Fujian province to visit Taiwan.\n\nA ​mechanism will be established to ease inspection standards for food and fishery products, but that has to be on the political foundation of “opposing Taiwan independence,” _Xinhua_ said.\n\nTaiwanese TV dramas, documentaries and ​animation will be allowed to be shown as long as they have “correct orientation, ​healthy content, and high production quality,” it added.\n\nTaiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, which is in charge of ‌the ⁠island’s China policy, said in a statement that Beijing’s so-called “unilateral concessions” are merely poisoned pills packaged as “generous gift packages.”\n\nThe Taiwanese government supports healthy and orderly cross-strait exchanges, but they should not be subject to political preconditions or objectives, it said.\n\nIn a ​statement, the KMT welcomed ​China’s announcement, saying ⁠it was a “gift” to the people of Taiwan.\n\nChina refuses to speak to Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, saying he is a “separatist.” He ​rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims over the democratically governed island.\n\nChina and ​Taiwan have ⁠blamed each other for the lack of a resumption of large-scale Chinese tourism to the island since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nTaiwan has also previously complained about ⁠Chinese ​restrictions on imports of certain agricultural and aquatic products, ​saying China has in some cases used unjustified excuses to stop the spread of pests and diseases.",
  "title": "China offers incentives to Taiwan following opposition leader’s visit"
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