KMT Says Cheng Li-wun's China Trip Subsidized by Democracy Foundation Was a Lawful Application
In response to reports that the KMT's Cheng Li-wun used NT$4.8 million from the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy for a trip to China, the KMT defended the move as a legitimate application for cross-strait party exchange.
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(CNA Reporter Liu Kuan-ting, Taipei 16th) Media reported that KMT Chairperson Cheng Li-wun recently visited China and applied for funding from the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. Yin Nai-ching, head of the KMT's Culture and Communications Committee, stated today that Cheng Li-wun's 2026 peace tour to mainland China was a lawful application to the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy to engage in political party exchanges.
Media reported today that the 35-member KMT delegation led by Cheng Li-wun spent NT$4.8 million on their 6-day trip, including airfare, accommodation, meals, and pocket money. The KMT did not pay for this; instead, they applied for funding from the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, which is endowed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and chaired by Legislative Yuan Speaker Han Kuo-yu. The state treasury effectively footed the bill for the KMT's China trip.
Yin Nai-ching held a press conference in the morning, stating that the original intention of establishing the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy was to promote exchanges between Taiwan's political parties, think tanks, and countries in Asia and the world, to propagate Taiwan's values of democracy, freedom, and human rights. As an opposition party, the KMT, led by Cheng Li-wun on the 2026 peace tour to mainland China, lawfully submitted an application to the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy to engage in political party exchanges.
Yin Nai-ching said that the opposition party's visit to mainland China precisely demonstrates that Taiwan is a country with a democratic and free system, where the ruling and opposition parties alternate, but the KMT still conducts normal political party exchanges with the mainland.
Yin Nai-ching emphasized that if the ruling DPP government is willing to return to the "1992 Consensus"—the common political foundation for cross-strait relations reached in Hong Kong talks by the SEF and ARATS, authorized by both governments in 1992—and abandon its Taiwan independence platform, the DPP could also apply to the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy for party exchange subsidies to conduct political exchanges with the Chinese Communist Party. (Editor: Hsieh Chia-chen) 1150416
(CNA Reporter Liu Kuan-ting, Taipei 16th) Media reported that KMT Chairperson Cheng Li-wun recently visited China and applied for funding from the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. Yin Nai-ching, head of the KMT's Culture and Communications Committee, stated today that Cheng Li-wun's 2026 peace tour to mainland China was a lawful application to the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy to engage in political party exchanges.
Media reported today that the 35-member KMT delegation led by Cheng Li-wun spent NT$4.8 million on their 6-day trip, including airfare, accommodation, meals, and pocket money. The KMT did not pay for this; instead, they applied for funding from the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, which is endowed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and chaired by Legislative Yuan Speaker Han Kuo-yu. The state treasury effectively footed the bill for the KMT's China trip.
Yin Nai-ching held a press conference in the morning, stating that the original intention of establishing the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy was to promote exchanges between Taiwan's political parties, think tanks, and countries in Asia and the world, to propagate Taiwan's values of democracy, freedom, and human rights. As an opposition party, the KMT, led by Cheng Li-wun on the 2026 peace tour to mainland China, lawfully submitted an application to the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy to engage in political party exchanges.
Yin Nai-ching said that the opposition party's visit to mainland China precisely demonstrates that Taiwan is a country with a democratic and free system, where the ruling and opposition parties alternate, but the KMT still conducts normal political party exchanges with the mainland.
Yin Nai-ching emphasized that if the ruling DPP government is willing to return to the "1992 Consensus"—the common political foundation for cross-strait relations reached in Hong Kong talks by the SEF and ARATS, authorized by both governments in 1992—and abandon its Taiwan independence platform, the DPP could also apply to the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy for party exchange subsidies to conduct political exchanges with the Chinese Communist Party. (Editor: Hsieh Chia-chen) 1150416