Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/24
By: Ku Chuan and S.C. Chang
Taipei, Sept. 24 (CNA) A former official from the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) said
Su Chi (蘇起), former secretary-general of the National Security Council (NSC)
Sunday the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has a duty to establish official communications between Taiwan and China.
Su Chi (蘇起), former secretary-general of the National Security Council (NSC), told an academic seminar that the DPP and the Communist Party of China (CPC) — China’s ruling party — hold diametrically opposing views about the “1992 consensus” which Beijing considers the political foundation for official exchanges between Taiwan and China and has cited as a reason for breaking off exchanges with the DPP government, which denies the existence of such a consensus.
The CPC views the “1992 consensus” as an agreement between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of China. The DPP simply denies its existence, though it admits there were talks between the governments of Taiwan and China that year and both sides did reach some agreements, none of which include Taiwan’s agreement that it is part of China.
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