China announced 10 new measures for Taiwan after Cheng Li-wun, the chair of Taiwan's opposition party Kuomintang, concluded a rare visit to China that included talks with President Xi Jinping, Reuters reported on April 12. The package includes easier tourism access, support for Taiwanese agricultural and fishery exports, investment facilitations and plans for a regular Chinese Communist Party-KMT communication mechanism, although Taiwan's government dismissed the measures as political coercion.

Beijing is exercising its longstanding strategy of bypassing the DPP administration of President William Lai and engaging friendlier opposition actors to demonstrate that cooperation yields economic gains. The timing also reflects China's broader effort to preserve nonmilitary avenues of influence after years of military pressure have hardened Taiwanese public opinion and reduced support for political accommodation.