CONTINUITY:The US voiced its interest not only in the Ma administration’s cross-strait aims, but also Hung Hsiu-chu’s and Tsai Ing-wen’s stances, the MAC boss said

Taipei Times
Date:  Jul 17, 2015
By: Nadia Tsao  /  Staff reporter in WASHINGTON

The US wants to know the cross-strait aims of President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration in its remaining months in office, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Minister Andrew Hsia (夏立言) told a news conference in Washington on Wednesday.

Speaking at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office on the last day of a visit to Washington, Hsia said he told the US that institutionalized cross-strait negotiations would continue through the Straits Exchange Foundation and China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS).     [FULL  STORY]