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KMT Vice Chair Meets Top Beijing Official at Cross-Strait Culture Summit in Beijing
Chang Rong-kung met Wang Huning on the opening day of the third annual Cross-Strait Chinese Culture Summit in Beijing on May 11, 2026. The Kuomintang official stressed a shared Chinese identity and called for reactivation of consultation mechanisms. The remarks come days before a landmark US-China summit scheduled in Beijing.
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Chang Rong-kung, vice-chairman of the Kuomintang, told Wang Huning on May 11, 2026 that the relationship between mainland China and Taiwan is not one of state-to-state relations. The two met at the opening day of the third annual Cross-Strait Chinese Culture Summit in Beijing on Monday, May 11, 2026.
Wang Huning, chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the Communist Party’s No 4 official and Beijing’s top official on Taiwan affairs, said the summit showed people on both sides of the strait shared a belief that territory must not be divided and the nation must not be dispersed.
His remarks were reported according to the Taiwan-based United Daily News. Wang added that people on both sides wanted to safeguard, inherit and promote Chinese culture and build a common homeland for the Chinese nation. In response, Chang Rong-kung said that from a cultural point of view, “people on both sides are Chinese and belong to one family”.
He added that under the existing legal framework, there was only one China and there were no state-to-state relations. “As long as we leverage this reality and reactivate the cross-strait consultation mechanisms, there will be a political foundation [for peaceful development],” Chang Rong-kung said. The third annual Cross-Strait Chinese Culture Summit will last until Wednesday, May 13, 2026.
Its theme is “shared culture, connected bloodline”. It will feature a series of forums, exhibits and visits. The meeting between the Kuomintang vice-chairman and the senior Beijing official took place against the backdrop of a landmark US-China summit scheduled to take place in Beijing the week of May 10, 2026.
