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Taipei Times
Date: Sep 19, 2016
By: Chung Li-hua, Lin Liang-sheng and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Setting preconditions for cross-strait exchanges are not conducive to “meaningful dialogue,”
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) county commissioners and deputy county commissioners, center row, attend a meeting yesterday with China’s Taiwan Affairs Office Minister Zhang Zhijun in Beijing. Photo: CNA
Presidential Office spokesperson Alex Huang (黃重諺) said yesterday.
“Preconditions are not necessary for meaningful dialogue; only those [without preconditions] can facilitate genuine understanding between the two sides. Maintaining peace and stability across the Strait is the responsibility of both sides, and the Presidential Office believes that any initiative that improves mutual understanding is a worthy and positive effort,” Huang said.
Huang’s remark was in response to comments made yesterday by China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) Minister Zhang Zhijun (張志軍), who said that as long as the political foundation of the so-called “1992 consensus” remains solid, cross-strait exchanges can still be pushed forward.
The “1992 consensus” — a term former Mainland Affairs Council chairman Su Chi (蘇起) admitted to making up in 2000 — refers to a supposed understanding reached during cross-strait talks in 1992 that both Taiwan and China acknowledge that there is “one China,” with each side having its own interpretation of what “China” means. [FULL STORY]
