Taiwan News
Date: 2015-11-10
By Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Chinese leader Xi Jinping met the wrong person at the wrong time, and no handshake will

win over the Taiwanese people’s sympathy, Time Magazine said in a report about last weekend’s summit with President Ma Ying-jeou.
The two leaders held a historic meeting in Singapore on Saturday, but international criticism focused on the event as a photo opportunity without much content.

“The handshake was long, 82 seconds, almost awkwardly so, and the smiles were stretched too, for the cameras,” Time’s Asia editor Zoher Abdoolcarim opened his report, available online Tuesday.

The writer described Ma as “a yesterday man,” referring to his poll ratings barely making double digits near the end of his final term. “A spotty economy during his tenure, infighting in a fragmenting KMT that lacks a coherent vision for Taiwan, and a broad slate of commercial agreements Ma reached with Beijing, have all conspired to hurt him,” Time wrote.     [FULL  STORY]

The Hindu
Date: November 9, 2015
By: Atul Aneja

A CPPCC statement described Sun Yat-sen as a “great national hero, patriot and pioneer of

China’s democratic revolution”.

China has decided on to host a string of events next year to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Sun Yat-sen — a major move to help bridge cross-strait ties with Taiwan.

The decision was taken on Sunday by the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, a day after the historic meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Taiwanese counterpart Ma Ying Jeou.

A CPPCC statement described Sun Yat-sen as a “great national hero, patriot and pioneer of China’s democratic revolution”.

The state-run tabloid Global Times quoted Lu Cuncheng, an academic focusing on Taiwan as saying that the “scale of the events could be equivalent to those that marked the 70th anniversary of the victory of Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression”.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan Today
Date: November 9, 2015
By: United Daily News

The historic meeting between ROC President Ma Ying-jeou and mainland Chinese leader Xi

Jinping Nov. 7 in Singapore has been met with a mixed response from the public in Taiwan, according to a survey released Nov. 9 by local paper United Daily News.

Approximately 37.1 percent of respondents in the UDN poll approved of President Ma’s performance in the meeting, ahead of 33.8 percent who said they were dissatisfied and 23.3 percent who said they had no opinion.

When asked whether Ma should report to the Legislature on his talks with Xi, 52.9 percent of the respondents agreed, while 21 percent disagreed and 20.4 percent said they did not know.

Meanwhile, concerning which of the three candidates in Taiwan’s 2016 presidential election are most capable of maintaining stable cross-strait relations, the ruling Kuomintang’s Eric Chu received the most public support at 28.2 percent.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/11/09
By: Flor Wang

Taipei, Nov. 9 (CNA) The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said Monday President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) expressedly told Chinese President Xi Jinping in Singapore that the Republic of China’s Constitution bans “two Chinas,” “one China. one Taiwan,” and “Taiwan independence.”

The MAC unveiled the full text of Ma’s talks in his historic summit with Xi (習近平) held Nov.7 in Singapore to prove that Ma did indeed mention the latter part of the “1992 consensus” during the meeting — that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are free to interpret the meaning of “one China.”

Ma said that since 2008, the two sides have jointly built peace and stability across the strait, which has gained recognition from people on both sides and from the international community.     [FULL  STORY]

SBS
Date: 8 Nov 2015
By: AAP

The main newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party says the push for Taiwan’s independence must be stopped, a day after the two nations’ leaders met.

Those who wish to push for Taiwan’s independence risk overturning the “boat of peace” and must be stopped, the main newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party said a day after a historic meeting between China and Taiwan’s leaders.

Meeting in Singapore on Saturday, China’s President Xi Jinping told Taiwan’s president they must not let proponents of Taiwan’s independence split them, at the first get-together of leaders of the two sides since China’s civil war ended in 1949.

Ma Ying-jeou, president of self-ruled, democratic Taiwan, where anti-Beijing sentiment has been rising ahead of elections, called for mutual respect for each other’s systems and said Taiwan people were concerned about mainland missiles pointing their way.     [FULL  STORY]

Reuters
November 8, 2015
By: J.R. Wu

TAIPEI (Reuters) – After waiting for more than six decades, it was a meal that lasted less

than two hours.

Seated next to each other at a round table, to avoid having to choose someone to sit in the “host” position at the top of a rectangular table, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou shared a relatively simple dinner in a Singapore hotel after their historic meeting on Saturday.

Over crayfish, fried asparagus and spicy noodles, Xi and Ma talked politics, education and knives made from old Chinese artillery shells, according to an account provided by Ma to reporters on the flight back to Taipei late on Saturday.

“We did not drink that much,” Ma said. “He said his capacity for liquor wasn’t good and I said mine was not good either.”     [FULL  STORY]