Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/22
By: Hsieh Chia-chen and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, Oct. 22 (CNA) For Taiwan “independence is unnecessary” and also “impossible

former President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九)

to achieve,” said former President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) Sunday in reply to a reporter’s question about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) recent comments on Bejing’s Taiwan policy.

Xi reiterated the “one China” principle and “1992 consensus” at the opening of the 19th national congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Oct. 18. He said China would not sit idly by if “any person, organization or political party tried to split any territory from China at any time in any form.”

However, the Chinese leader noted that Taiwan’s existing social systems and the way the people of Taiwan live will be respected.    [FULL  STORY]