MA-XI MEETING: ‘Wrathful’ Tsai slammed by Chinese newspaper

Taipei Times
Date: Nov 10, 2015
By: AFP, BEIJING

A state-run Chinese newspaper yesterday denounced Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) as narrow-minded and selfish after she criticized the historic meeting between President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) in Singapore on Saturday.

Ma and Xi shook hands and smiled for the media before entering a closed-door session at the Shangri-La Hotel on Saturday afternoon, marking a symbolic milestone in the cross-strait relationship since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.

Tsai blasted Ma for “failing to stand up for democracy” and freedom, and for not describing Taiwan as the Republic of China.

In a post on her Facebook page on Sunday, Tsai accused Ma of trying to “limit Taiwan’s future… to achieve his own political status.”     [FULL  STORY]

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