Taiwan leader’s ‘incomplete answer’
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THE Chinese mainland remains as determined as ever to uphold national sovereignty and territorial integrity, the mainland Taiwan affairs authority said yesterday.
“Taiwan independence” remains the biggest threat to peace across the Taiwan Strait and the peaceful growth of cross-Strait relations, it said in a statement issued after Taiwan’s new leader Tsai Ing-wen took office.
In her inauguration address, it said, Tsai “was ambiguous about the fundamental issue, the nature of cross-Strait relations, an issue that is of utmost concern to people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.”
The statement, issued by the head of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, described her remarks on cross-Strait relations as “an incomplete test answer,” and it listed three questions of choice the Taiwan authorities had to answer.
The choice between upholding the common political foundation that embodies the “one China” principle and pursuing separatist propositions of “Taiwan Independence” such as “two Chinas” or “one country on each side.”
The choice between staying on the path of peaceful growth of cross-Strait relations and repeating the past practice of provoking cross-Strait tension and instability.
The choice between enhancing the affinity and wellbeing of people on both sides and severing their blood ties and undermining their fundamental interests.
“She did not explicitly recognize the 1992 Consensus and its core implications,” the statement said, “and made no concrete proposal for ensuring the peaceful and stable growth of cross-Strait relations.”
The situation across the Strait had been kept free from tension and instability and maintaining this is the shared desire of Chinese on both sides as well as overseas Chinese and the international community, it said.
Noting that the new leader had stated that the 1992 talks between the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits and the Straits Exchange Foundation had reached some common understanding, it warned that the pursuit of Taiwan independence would not be conducive to peace and stability.
“We will resolutely forestall any separatist moves and plots to pursue Taiwan independence in any form,” it said.
“The mainland would continue to adhere to the political foundation of the 1992 Consensus, resolutely oppose Taiwan independence, firmly uphold the ‘one China’ principle and work with all political parties and groups in Taiwan who recognize that both sides belong to the same China,” the statement said.
“The Taiwan compatriots share blood ties with us and there is no force that can separate us,” it added.
“We will further expand exchanges between compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, advance cross-Strait exchanges and cooperation in various fields, deepen the integrated economic and social development of the two sides and improve the wellbeing and strengthen the close bond of people across the Strait,” the statement said, “so that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will build a community of shared future and join hands to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
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