The Chinese Communist Party engages with Taiwan’s opposition parties for strategic, political and economic purposes, and its recent 10 incentive measures aim to promote its “one-China” framework, National Security Bureau Director-General Tsai Ming-yen (蔡明彥) said Monday.

The national security director made the remarks at a Legislative Yuan Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee meeting in Taipei on Monday, one day after KMT leader Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) returned from a six-day trip to China where she met Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平). After that meeting, the Chinese Communist Party’s Taiwan Work Office announced a 10-point list of measures including party-to-party dialogue, youth exchanges, infrastructure connectivity, transportation, and trade.

Speaking at the committee hearing, Tsai said the political aim of those measures was to guide Taiwan toward Beijing’s “one-China” framework.

Tsai said Beijing uses such preferential measures to increase Taiwan’s dependence on the Chinese market, and that any such interactions must be handled through Taiwan’s central government, rather than private party-to-party exchanges.

He added that the measures were a tactic aimed at interfering in Taiwan’s elections.

Also speaking at the committee hearing, Mainland Affairs Council Deputy Minister Liang Wen-chieh (梁文傑) said that signing political agreements with China without official authorization from Taiwan’s government is not permitted under Taiwan’s cross-strait laws.

He said, however, that the Chinese measures announced were vague and needed further review.