Hsia has scheduled dinner with ARATS chairman for Wednesday

Public backlash to ill-timed trip has been intense, but there may have been reasons for KMT's urgency to go ahead anyway

City officials say broadcast had been approved by TAO

A Chinese official said the one-China, two systems arrangement for Taiwan shows Beijings care and understanding towards Taiwanese people

Other than proposing a bridge be built connecting Fujian and Kinmen, Xi offered very little in terms of new policy on Taiwan

On July 13 TAO chief Liu Jieyisummarized a private address Xi Jinpinggave to aKMT delegation led by former Taiwan VPLien Chen

Nantou County Magistrate Lin Ming-chenand Hualien Magistrate Fu Kun-chi pick an odd time for a visitwith Chinas TAO chief before 2018 elections

KMT politician Eric Chu, the mayor of New Taipei, met with Liu Jieyi, the new TAO chief in Shanghai, while Chinese military air craft flew through Taiwans Air Defense Identification Zone

Liu Jieyi, who will now head the TAO,wasrepresentative to the UN untilSept. 2017, when he was recalled and appointeda deputydirector of TAO

Earlier Hong Kong media reports had Liu Jieyi take the top position straightaway