WATCH: Taiwan Opposition Leader Says ‘Birds, Not Missiles,’ Should Fly During China Visit
April 9, 2026
DawnNews English
Birds, not missiles, should fly in the skies, Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun said on Thursday (April 9) in Shanghai, citing Norse and Anglo-Saxon poetry on the need to promote peace. Cheng, chairwoman of Taiwan's largest opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT), is in China on what she has called a "peace" mission to lessen tensions at a time when Beijing has stepped up military pressure against the island it calls its own.
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