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

Zhang Zhijun (張志軍)

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]