NO RETURN?Andrew Hsia said he joked with his Chinese counterpart that lawmakers had demanded that he protest over a travel issue, or he ‘should not bother going home’
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 15, 2015
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Minister Andrew Hsia (夏立言) yesterday
Mainland Affairs Council Minister Andrew Hsia, left, yesterday shakes hands with China’s Taiwan Affairs Office Minister Zhang Zhijun in Guangzhou, China. Photo: Reuters
said that the existence of the so-called “1992 consensus” is a historical fact that needs to be respected, while calling for goodwill and mutual understanding from both sides of the Taiwan Strait when dealing with major cross-strait issues.
Hsia made the remarks during his second meeting with his Chinese counterpart, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office Minister Zhang Zhijun (張志軍), in Guangzhou, China — talks that are expected to be the last high-level cross-strait interaction of President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) second term.
“Seventeen years ago today, four consensuses were reached at the 1998 Koo-Wang [then-Straits Exchange Foundation chairman Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫) and Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits chairman Wang Daohan (汪道涵)] talks held on the basis of the ‘1992 consensus,’ which was reached during a meeting in Hong Kong in 1992 between Taiwanese and Chinese representatives,” Hsia said. [FULL STORY]
