Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-03
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – President Tsai Ing-wen was protecting Taiwan’s sovereignty by refusing to
Former envoy to Japan Koh Se-kai.
accept the so-called “1992 Consensus,” former Taiwanese representative in Japan Koh Se-kai said Saturday.
Relations between China and Taiwan have cooled off recently, mainly because Beijing wants Tsai, who was sworn in last May, to acknowledge the so-called consensus. According to the official version supported by the previous Kuomintang administration, negotiators from Taiwan and China met in Hong Kong in 1992 and agreed that there was only One China, but that both sides had the right to interpret the notion in their own way.
Tsai and her Democratic Progressive Party have never accepted the existence of such a consensus, especially since China never mentions the part about each side being allowed to have its own version of the One China idea. [FULL STORY]