KOO-WANG TALKS: Peace and communication are the keys to realizing mutual interests, the council said, as it called on Beijing to break the cross-strait detente

Taipei Times
Date:  Apr 28, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu  /  Staff reporter

The Mainland Affairs Council yesterday reiterated calls for Beijing to begin a precondition-free constructive dialogue with Taipei, as it marked the 25th anniversary of the so-called landmark Koo-Wang talks.

The Koo-Wang talks refer to a meeting that took place from April 27 to April 29, 1993, in Singapore between then-Straits Exchange Foundation chairman Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫) and his Chinese counterpart, then-Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits chairman Wang Daohan (汪道涵).

It was the first public meeting between the chairmen of Taiwanese and Chinese non-governmental organizations since the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regime’s 1949 retreat to Taiwan. The second Koo-Wang talks were held in China from Oct. 14 to Oct. 18, 1998.

“History has taught us that peace and communication are the keys to realizing mutual interests and prosperity across the Taiwan Strait,” the council said in a press release.
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