CHINA SHOULD DROP MILITARY THREAT AGAINST TAIWAN: MAC
ROC Central News Agency
2006-02-08 23:04:57
Taipei, Feb. 8 (CNA) China should drop its military threat against Taiwan to facilitate the cultivation of mutual trust across the Taiwan Strait, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairman Joseph Wu said Wednesday.
Wu was responding to China's accusation that President Chen Shui-bian was a "troublemaker" for his Lunar New Year's Day speech calling for discussion on scrapping the 15-year-old official guidelines on cross-strait unification.
Stressing that Chen had on numerous occasions declared his willingness to uphold his "five noes" pledge to stabilize cross-strait ties as long as China had no intention of using military force against Taiwan, Wu said China, with its continued military buildup and missile deployment targeting Taiwan, was unqualified to blame Chen or talk about "cross-strait mutual trust."
The "five noes" pledge, outlined in Chen's 2000 inaugural address, ncludes no scrapping of the unification quidelines.
Over the past year, Wu said, China had enacted a so-called "Anti-secession" law targeting Taiwan, and expanded its Taiwan-targeting military exercises in moves that unilaterally changed the Taiwan Strait status quo. Against this backdrop, Wu said, China itself was the biggest threat and destroyer of peace in the Taiwan Strait and throughout East Asia.
(By Sofia Wu)
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