Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/18
By: Lawrence Chiu and Elizabeth Hsu
Taipei, Sept. 18 (CNA) Taiwan’s mainland affairs authorities reiterated the government stance Sunday that no political conditions should be attached to exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait so that true understanding can be possible between them.
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) released the statement in response to remarks by Yu Zhengsheng (俞正聲), chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and Zhang Zhijun (張志軍), head of the Taiwan Affairs Office under China’s State Council, in Beijing earlier in the day about cross-strait links.
During his meeting with a visiting Taiwanese delegation comprised of eight local government chiefs or deputy chiefs, Yu blamed the new government in Taiwan for having caused a great impact on the cross-strait relations that were in peaceful development before its inauguration in May.
Yu referred to the new government’s refusal to recognize the “1992 consensus,” which Taiwan’s previous government led by Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) of the Kuomintang (KMT) honored. [FULL STORY]