‘MANIPULATION’: Many Taiwanese do not know what the ‘1992 consensus’ means, and even within the KMT there are different understandings of it, one researcher said
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 02, 2018
By: Chung Li-hua / Staff reporter
The return of the so-called “1992 consensus” in political rhetoric after Nov. 24’s
Former president Ma Ying-jeou attends a forum at Soochow University in Taipei on Jan. 3. Photo: Huang Yao-cheng, Taipei Times
local elections is the result of an attempt by the pan-blue camp to mislead Taiwanese, academics have said.
After the local elections, Kaohsiung mayor-elect Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) and Taichung mayor-elect Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) have publicly endorsed the “1992 consensus,” making it a popular search term on the Internet, especially in Kaohsiung.
However, a 2016 study published by Academia Sinica showed that although 90 percent of respondents had heard of the “1992 consensus,” only 24.9 percent were aware of its content, compared with 64.3 percent who were not.
The “1992 consensus,” a term former Mainland Affairs Council chairman Su Chi (蘇起) in 2006 admitted making up in 2000, refers to a tacit understanding between the KMT and the Chinese Communist Party that both sides acknowledge that there is “one China,” with each side having its own interpretation of what “China” means. [FULL STORY]
