CPC-KMT platform resumes with Xi-Wu meeting

l  KMT Honorary Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung lead a party delegation to Beijing during June 12-14. Wu met Secretary-General of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Xi-Jinping on June 13. It was the first formal meeting between Xi and Wu since the former assumed control of the CPC during its 18^th Party Congress last October. Wu also met the chairman of China’s Political Consultative Conference (PCC), Yu Zhengsheng, on June 14 before heading home.

l  Though both the CPC and the KMT downplayed the significance behind the first Xi-Wu meeting, there was nevertheless significant attention on the event amidst rising calls for cross-Strait political talks out of Beijing. The latitude that Wu was able to exhibit at the meeting provided an early indication of changes, if any, that President Ma Ying-jeou plans to pursue on this highly sensitive but unavoidable issue.