The People First Party (PFP) will organize a group to visit Shanghai to pay the party's last respects to Wang Daohan (
Party Spokesman Hsieh Kung-ping (
The decision on Soong's attendance will be made after consultations with Wang's family, Hsieh said.
Soong met with Wang at his Shanghai residence during a visit to China in May.
Members of the PFP delegation will also include several PFP legislators, Hsieh added.
Key figures of the Beijing leadership are expected to travel to Shanghai to attend the funeral for Wang, the late chairman of Beijing's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), a quasi-official intermediary body responsible for negotiating with Taiwan in the absence of formal ties between the two sides.
ARATS's Taiwanese counterpart is the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF).
Both SEF Chairman Chang Chun-hsiung (
Chang's predecessor, Koo Chen-fu (
However, Beijing suspended the dialogue in 1995, to protest against then-president Lee Teng-hui's (李登輝) visit to the US, and later in 1999 against Lee's remarks which defined cross-strait relations as those between two states.
Beijing has refused to resume dialogue with Taipei in the past five years since the pro-independence DPP came to power.
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