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’92 Consensus’ at Chinese Academic Forum
The News Lens
Date: 2016/07/30
By: Shuhei Omi
Chinese academics at a Cross-Strait Relations Academic Conference organized by Xiamen
Photo Credit: Reuters/達志影像
University have blamed the Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) administration’s refusal to acknowledge the “92 Consensus” as the cause of deteriorating cross-Strait relations, Central News Agency reports.
Liu Guoshen (劉國深), director of Xiamen University’s Taiwan Studies Institute, told the conference he hopes the Tsai administration will acknowledge the so-called “92 Consensus” so there can be “peaceful cross-strait developments.”
A number of analysts have observed, both openly and behind closed doors, that by insisting on President Tsai recognizing the consensus, Beijing has backed itself into a corner and undermined communication between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
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