No question of Tsai toeing Ma's line in cross-strait policy: DPP
ROC Central News Agency
2016/02/15 20:12:56
Taipei, Feb. 15 (CNA) President-elect Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) will not follow incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) line on China as a scholar has suggested, the Democratic Progressive Party said on Monday.
DPP spokesman Wang Min-sheng( 王閔生) said in a statement that there is no question of Tsai toeing Ma's line after scholar Shao Zong-hai (邵宗海) argued in an article in the China Times -- a local newspaper -- that the new government's cross-strait policy will follow Ma's.
Tsai has said clearly that she will stick to the public will, abide by democratic principles and insist on safeguarding the Taiwanese people's options for their future, Wang said in the statement, calling that the biggest difference between the new government and the Ma administration.
'We will not follow the established approach,' Wang said.
He said that the public will and democracy should be the government's two pillars in formulating cross-strait policy and that if the party deviates from the two pillars, it cannot expect to be stable for very long.
In her visit to the United States last June and also during the presidential campaign, Tsai said her support for 'maintaining the status quo' referred to promoting cross-strait policy under the Republic of China constitutional system and following the public will.
The new government will continue to promote cross-strait peace and stability on the foundation built through cross-strait consultations and exchanges over the past two decades, and she has pledged that cross-strait ties will be consistent, predictable and sustainable, according to Wang.
Tsai will assume the presidency on May 20.
(By Sophia Yeh and Lilian Wu)
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