Taipei Times
Date: Nov 08, 2018
By: Lin Liang-sheng and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Ma Ying-jeou Foundation yesterday held a policy forum on the future of cross-strait
Former president Ma Ying-jeou yesterday addresses a forum organized by the Ma Ying-jeou Foundation to discuss the future of cross-strait relations. Photo: CNA
relations to mark the third anniversary of the historic meeting between then-president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) in Singapore in 2015.
It was the first time in 66 years leaders of the two sides in the Chinese Civil War had met since the retreat of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regime to Taiwan in 1949.
At the forum, Ma said that the “1992 consensus” was an actual political accord between Taiwan and China.
President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration’s refusal to recognize the consensus is tantamount to unilaterally abolishing the accord, Ma said. [FULL STORY]
