Taiwan's Opposition Leader in China for Peace Talks

0:00It's April 7. Welcome to Global News Today, powered by AI and Connected Worldwide. Taiwan's opposition leader, Changli Wun, chair of the Kuomintang Party, headed to China on Tuesday for a peace mission that might include talks with President Xi Jinping. This comes as Chinese warships circle the island, two off the east coast, and one each to the northwest and southwest. Tensions are high with Beijing wrapping up military moves around Taiwan, which he claims as its own. Meanwhile, the opposition-led parliament is blocking the government's push for $40 billion in extra defense funds. Chang says she's grabbing any chance to avoid war and make Taiwan the safest spot on Earth. Taiwan officials, though, are urging her to push China to back off the military harassment when she meets them face-to-face. She's flying it to Shanghai first, then training to Nanjing, hitting up the mausoleum of Sun Yatsun, the Republic of China's founder. It's the first such trip by a cam tea head in ten years, and China hasn't confirmed

1:03if she will show. All this lands just a month before US President Donald Trump's summit with Xi, in Beijing, where Taiwan's sure to come up amid talks on trade and arm sales, eyes are on whether this sparks any real calm or just more heat.