MAC head hopes institutionalized negotiations with China will continue
ROC Central News Agency
2016/03/16 21:40:11
Taipei, March 16 (CNA) The two sides of the Taiwan Strait should continue their efforts to hold institutionalized negotiations and deepen exchanges in all areas, Taiwan's top China policy planner said Wednesday, while receiving a delegation of U.S. scholars.
Hsia Li-yan (夏立言), head of the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), reiterated the Taiwan government's policy toward China and said he hoped both sides of the strait would try to maintain their current peaceful, stable relations, according to the MAC.
The two sides should continue the institutionalized cross-strait negotiations, the interactions between officials and their exchanges in all areas, Hsia said in his meeting with the delegation of American academics from various institutions.
The delegation, led by Richard Bush, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, also met with Vice President Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) on Wednesday.
Wu said that maintaining the peaceful and stable development in the Taiwan Strait 'is not only in the interest of our country but is also what the United States is expecting.'
'I believe that a smart, reasonable Chinese leader will also want to maintain the status quo,' Wu said.
He said a historic meeting between President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping (習近平) last November in Singapore had created a model for the peaceful and stable development of cross-strait ties that were established over the past eight years.
Wu said he hoped the future leaders of Taiwan and China will work to preserve the current peaceful relationship.
(By Chen Chia-lun, Claudia Liu and Elaine Hou)
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