The China Post
Date: July 4, 2016
By: CNA

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China should have received notification from Taiwan about the Navy’s accidental launching of a missile into the Taiwan Strait on Friday, July 1, given that Taipei has used all available means of communication with Beijing, a senior Taiwanese official in charge of cross-strait affairs said Sunday.

Deputy Minister of Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) was responding to Zhang Zhijun (張志軍), head of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, who replied on July 1 that he “had no information,” when asked if the MAC had notified his office of the incident.

Zhang said at that time that Taiwan should provide a “responsible” explanation for the missile mishap earlier that day, calling it a “serious” matter.

In Taipei, the MAC said in a statement that day that it had asked the Straits Exchange Foundation, a semi-official organization responsible for cross-strait negotiations, to notify its Chinese counterpart — the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) — of the situation and ask it to help pass the information to related Chinese government agencies.     [FULL  STORY]