INAUGURATION:The speech would consist of three points: the significance of the third transfer of power, the predicaments facing Taiwan and cross-strait policies, a source said
Taipei Times
Date: May 12, 2016
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
President-elect Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday declined to confirm a media report that the so-
President-elect Tsai Ing-wen smiles at reporters before hosting a Democratic Progressive Party Central Standing Committee meeting yesterday at the party’s headquarters in Taipei. Photo: Liu hsin-de, Taipei Times
called “1992 consensus” is to be omitted from her inauguration speech on Friday next week, which has been the subject of much rumor and speculation.
Citing an unidentified source in Tsai’s camp, the Chinese-language Next Magazine yesterday reported that despite Beijing’s repeated attempts to browbeat Tsai into taking a public stance on the “1992 consensus” and the “one China” principle, the president-elect has decided to mention neither in her inaugural speech as a way of responding to her mandate from the electorate.
“The problem with cross-strait issues does not lie in whether Tsai is willing to recognize the ‘1992 consensus’ or the ‘one China’ principle, but rather if these concepts are accepted by the majority of Taiwanese,” the source was quoted as saying.
“It is impossible for the new Democratic Progressive Party [DPP] government to fall in line simply because of Beijing’s intimidation,” the source said, urging China to realize that the DPP would not follow in the footsteps of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), a party that supports the “1992 consensus” and the “one China” principle, and which was voted out of office in January. [FULL STORY]
