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Cheng Li-wun, the Kuomintang's bid to reassure Beijing

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Cheng Li-wun's troubled election as head of Taiwan's Kuomintang Chinese nationalist party has provided Beijing's intelligence services with a stable interlocutor while avoiding the party's implosion. Xi Jinping has agreed to meet her.

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