FOUNDATION:China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said a communications mechanism has been interrupted due to President Tsai’s failure to recognize the ‘1992 consensus’
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 26, 2016
By: Staff writer, with CNA
Beijing yesterday rejected Taiwan’s protest over Cambodia handing over Taiwanese fraud
Suspects sit as Chinese police officials stand guard before boarding a plane at the Phnom Penh International Airport on Friday.
Cambodia deported 25 Taiwanese nationals wanted on fraud charges to China on Friday, a police officer said, despite vehement opposition from Taipei. Photo: AFP/STR
suspects to Chinese authorities, saying for the first time that the cross-strait communications mechanism “has been suspended” since the new government took office in Taipei last month.
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson An Fengshan (安峰山) made the remark while answering reporters’ questions about Taipei’s protest over Cambodia’s decision to accept Beijing’s demand and send Taiwanese telecommunications fraud suspects to China for prosecution.
The mechanism for contact and communication between China and Taiwan “has been suspended” since May 20, as Taipei has not recognized the so-called “1992 consensus,” which he said is the foundation for cross-strait relations that embodies the “one China” principle.
Beijing has repeatedly said that the new government of President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) must accept the “1992 consensus” for what it called the warm bilateral ties over the past eight years to continue. [FULL STORY]
