SHANGHAI VISIT: While New Taipei City’s mayor and Liu Jieyi discussed peaceful exchanges, the MND deployed planes to shadow Chinese jets over the Bashi Channel
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 27, 2018
By: Lai Hsiao-tung, Chung Li-hua and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporters, with staff writer
New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu (朱立倫) and China’s Taiwan Affairs Office Minister Liu
New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu, left, waves yesterday during a meeting with Chinese Taiwan Affairs Office Minister Liu Jieyi in Shanghai. Photo courtesy of New Taipei City Government
Jieyi (劉結一) yesterday reiterated the so-called “1992 consensus” as a basis for cross-strait relations as they met in Shanghai.
Chu is the first Taiwanese politician to meet Liu since the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Central Committee announced the former UN ambassador’s appointment earlier this month.
Insistence on the “1992 consensus” has been the consistent position of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), Chu said.
Even though the KMT is now the opposition party, this stance would not change, and it hopes that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait can engage in peaceful exchanges and achieve win-win cooperation, Chu said.
[FULL STORY]
