In news from and about Taiwan this morning,

The K-M-T's chair-elect says she is willing to do everything to promote peace
across the Taiwan Strait, including meeting China's Xi Jinping.

According to Cheng Li-wun, she's will take any steps and and meet anyone as
long as it addresses cross-strait conflicts and disagreements, promotes peace
and cooperation, and brings about common prosperity.

Cheng says that is the defining difference between the stances of the K-M-T
and the D-P-P and, while the K-M-T hopes Taiwan and China will make peace
with each other ....

.. the D-P-P seems to keep touching the red lines of independence and
highlighting military conflict - which continues to provoke Beijing.

Citing a United Daily News survey on cross-strait relations released in late
September, which showed that 63-per cent of respondents were dissatisfied
with President Lai Ching-te's related policies - Cheng says the D-P-P's
"anti-China card" had led Taiwan into a dead-end.

Cheng won more than 50-per cent of the vote in Saturday's K-M-T leadership
election to become the party's second elected female chair.

She will start her four-year term as K-M-T chair on November 1 - when she
officially succeeds incumbent chairman Eric Chu.