How will Beijing receive the most senior Taiwan official at Apec events this year?

Hung Sun-han will be the first cabinet-level official under William Lai Ching-te to travel to mainland China Hung will be the most senior Taiwanese official to visit the mainland for Apec events this year. The island’s vice-minister of economic affairs, Lai Chien-hsin, took part in the energy ministerial meeting in Beijing last week and then chief trade negotiator Yang Jen-ni participated in a trade ministers’ meeting in Suzhou in May. While Hung’s visit is being closely watched for signs of a possible thaw in a prolonged cross-strait stand-off, analysts have cautioned against interpreting it as an icebreaking trip or a resumption of official exchanges between Taipei and Beijing.

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