Cheng "expressed hope that the two parties (the KMT and China's Communist Party) would work together to promote the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, strengthen cross-strait exchanges and cooperation, secure peace in the Taiwan Strait, and enhance the well-being of the people," her party said.
The former lawmaker assumed her role as KMT's chairperson after winning an election in October last year. She has publicly insisted on meeting Xi before an official visit to the United States, in a move that has garnered flak from both inside and outside of her party for being too pro-China. The KMT advocates closer economic ties and more exchanges with Beijing, which claims self-ruling Taiwan as its own territory.