Beijing’s tactics moved to legislative pressure: experts

Beijing’s identity approach has shifted from soft outreach to legislative pressure, Taiwanese academics said yesterday as they compared Friday’s meeting between Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) with a meeting 20 years ago between then-Chinese president Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) and then-KMT chairman Lien Chan (連戰).