Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/18
By: Lawrence Chiu, Liu Kuan-ting, and S.C. Chang
Beijing, Sept. 18 (CNA) Eight city and county government leaders of Taiwan held a “breakthrough”
Lienchiang County Magistrate Liu (left) shakes hands with China’s Yu Zhengsheng.
meeting with Beijing officials Sunday, urging China to seek ways to “reset and restart” cross-strait ties.
Hsu Yao-chang (徐耀昌), magistrate of Miaoli County, said his delegation was calling for both sides of the Taiwan Strait to choose a “broad avenue” on which economic, tourism, cultural and agricultural cooperation between Taiwan and China can be continued as they need to face international competition in these areas.
He said if cross-strait ties continued to be deadlocked, it will hurt both the government and the people. “Our visit to Beijing is a breakthrough since the new government was launched in May,” he added.
Hsu, of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), made his appeal to Zhang Zhijun, China’s Taiwan Affairs minister, who reiterated that the “one China” principle embodied in its “1992 consensus” with Taiwan is the political foundation on which cross-strait exchanges will be conducted. [FULL STORY]
