Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/07
Washington, Oct. 6 (CNA) Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) might introduce a
Richard Bush, CNA file photo
deadline for a resolution on Taiwan during the upcoming Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress this month, former American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Chairman Richard Bush wrote in a recent blog post.
In a post titled “What will Xi Jinping say about Taiwan at the 19th Party Congress?” Bush said the Chinese leader might introduce new elements in the country’s position on Taiwan, such as a deadline for a solution to what Beijing sees as “the Taiwan issue.”
“One possibility here is conveying a sense of urgency about resolving the dispute with Taiwan or even setting a deadline,” said Bush, who was AIT chairman from 1997 to 2002 and currently serves as co-director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies (CEAP) at the Brookings Institution.
He added that Xi himself hinted in a meeting with former Taiwan Vice President Vincent Siew in 2013 that “settling the dispute could not be postponed from generation to generation.” [FULL STORY]