EXAMPLE PROVIDED: The European Parliament-Taiwan Friendship Group said that Hong Kong has shown ‘one country, two systems’ to be a failure
Taipei Times
Date: Jan 15, 2019
By: Staff writer, with CNA
The European Parliament-Taiwan Friendship Group yesterday warned against the
The emblem of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is pictured at the ministry in Taipei in an undated photograph. Photo: Lu Yi-hsuan, Taipei Times
implications of mounting cross-strait tensions for regional peace, calling China’s “one country, two systems” formula a failed model in a letter to EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini.
The letter, signed by group chairman Werner Langen, vice chairman Andrey Kovatchev and former vice chairs Hans van Baalen and Laima Andrikiene, expressed concern over Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) call on Jan. 2 for cross-strait unification, the Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium said yesterday.
In a speech in Beijing marking the 40th anniversary of the 1979 “Message to Compatriots in Taiwan,” Xi said: “The history of the development of cross-strait relations has proven that no individual or force can change the historical and de jure sense of facts that Taiwan is a part of China and that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to the same China.” [FULL STORY]
He said non-peaceful means would only target external forces that resist, and the “extremely few pro-Taiwan independence separatists” and their movements.
