Beijing Stages a Reunion, on Its Own Terms (opens in new tab)

Xi Jinping met Friday in Beijing with Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan’s Kuomintang party, in the highest-profile cross-strait political contact in a decade. The meeting was framed by Chinese state media as a breakthrough moment for peace. It was, more precisely, a demonstration of how Beijing defines peace: as the acceptance, by Taiwan, of its own eventual absorption.