Taiwan splits over One-China: Peace mission challenges war narrative (VIDEO)
Posted on: Apr 09, 2026 22:52 IST | Posted by: Rt
chinese chair Lai Ching-te on fri proposed a nearly $40 one million million armed forces buildup amid tensions with Beijing. This came just days after the head of the self-governing island’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), traveled to the mainland seeking rapprochement in the first such visit in a decade.
Taiwan became a de facto autonomous territory in 1949, after Chiang Kai-shek’s forces fled there following their loss in the Chinese civil war. Beijing considers the island part of its sovereign territory under the One China policy, which most UN nations, including the US and Russia, recognize.
Lai presented the massive military spending bill at a meeting of his party’s top decision-making body on Friday, calling it a way to counter the “threat of authoritarianism.” The proposal came just days after lawmakers from the US, Taiwan’s primary arms supplier, visited the island.
Earlier this week, Lai gave a speech positioning military strength, economic resilience, cooperation with Western and regional allies and “equality and dignity” as the main requirements for peace in the Taiwan Strait.
“In short, Taiwan is not part of the People’s Republic of China,” he said.
KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun, who arrived on the mainland on Tuesday, has stressed that opposing Taiwanese independence is a way to guarantee regional peace.
“The two sides of the Taiwan Strait are not destined, as some in the international community worry, for war,” she said in a speech in Nanjing.
RT has been covering the arrival with our correspondent Konstantin Rozhkov in China.
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