Want China Times
Date: 2015-05-05
By: CNA and Staff Reporter

Taiwan’s president, Ma Ying-jeou, said Tuesday that Taiwan and China can find

President Ma Ying-jeou at the Presidential Office in Taipei, May 5. (Photo/CNA)

ways to achieve peace and mutual prosperity, stressing the significance of the 1992 Consensus in the development of cross-strait ties.

Ma said he believes both sides of the Taiwan Strait will find ways to make peace and deliver mutual prosperity and that “we have been working toward that direction based on the 1992 Consensus.”

According to Ma, that was why Eric Chu, chair of the ruling Kuomintang, also reaffirmed the principle of the 1992 Consensus during his visit to China to meet with the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, who is also China’s president.     [FULL  STORY]