Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/28
By: Miao Zong-han and Kuan-lin Liu
Taipei, Oct. 28 (CNA) The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) has urged the two sides
of the Taiwan Strait to exercise wisdom and patience in coming up with a new model for exchanges, according to a statement issued by the council Saturday.
The statement was in direct response to Zhang Zhijun (張志軍), China’s Taiwan Affairs Office director, who asked Taiwan’s government to accept the “1992 concensus” — which Beijing uses as the framework for its “one-China” policy — during a forum on cross-strait relations in Shanghai earlier that day.
According to Zhang, the only way to get past the impasse that currently characterizes China-Taiwan relations is for Taiwan to embrace the “1992 concensus” and admit that there is only “one China.” [FULL STORY]