Karishma Vaswani, Columnist

Xi's Outreach to Taiwan Is a Warning to the US

April 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM UTC

Karishma Vaswani is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asia politics with a special focus on China. Previously, she was the BBC's lead Asia presenter and worked for the BBC across Asia and South Asia for two decades.

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China's President Xi Jinping has a message for Donald Trump: Taiwan is none of your business.

He’s making that clear by hosting the island’s opposition leader Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of the Kuomintang, for a rare visit to the mainland. Starting Tuesday, she will travel to Jiangsu, Shanghai and Beijing in the first such visit by a KMT leader since 2016. Notably, this trip comes barely a month before the US president is scheduled to travel to Beijing for his own summit.