Singapore-based Lianhe Zaobao reported that Taiwan’s Liberty Times, citing sources from Beijing’s Taiwan affairs system and within the Kuomintang (KMT), said Song Tao, director of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Taiwan Affairs Office, stated that if the KMT seeks a “Zheng–Xi meeting” — a summit between the KMT and the CCP’s top leader — it must demonstrate a “firm commitment to following the correct course of history” and meet three specific conditions.
These three demands, privately referred to within the KMT as the “three tickets,” reportedly include:
- Blocking the military procurement budget proposed by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government to purchase U.S. weapons. Commentators noted this has already happened, as the KMT and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) in the Legislative Yuan have twice blocked a NT$1.25 trillion (US$40 billion) special defense budget.
- Immediately halt legislative efforts framed as national security measures that restrict or discriminate against mainland Chinese spouses, as well as mainland Chinese business and investment in Taiwan. Commentators said this has also occurred, noting that KMT legislators recently proposed amendments to the Nationality Act that would allow mainland Chinese spouses holding PRC nationality to run for public office in Taiwan without renouncing their Chinese citizenship. Critics argue that family-reunification channels for mainland spouses have become an important avenue for CCP agents to infiltrate Taiwan’s political system.
- Beijing would welcome the KMT firmly restating unification with China as its central strategic goal, while also proposing institutional reforms and concrete actions to eliminate systems deemed unfriendly or harmful to that objective.
According to the report, KMT vice chairpersons visited mainland China several times in recent months to discuss these issues with Song Tao, ultimately securing Beijing’s agreement to hold the “Zheng–Xi meeting” around the Lunar New Year. The KMT rejected the “three tickets” report, denouncing it as fabricated.
Sources:
1. Lianhe Zaobao, December 8, 2025
https://www.zaobao.com.sg/news/china/story20251208-7932502
2. Epoch Times, December 13, 2025
https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/25/12/12/n14654310.htm