Tsai promises to boost cross-strait exchanges, communication
ROC Central News Agency
2016/04/06 17:47:40
Taipei, April 6 (CNA) President-elect Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said Wednesday that her administration will step up exchanges and communication with the Chinese government and will commit to maintaining peaceful and stable relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
"This will be an important task of the new administration," Tsai was quoted as saying in a news release by her Democratic Progressive Party after she met with Richard Armitage, a former U.S. deputy secretary of state, and other former foreign officials.
Taiwan will cooperate with the United States on such substantive issues as humanitarian assistance and climate change, as part of its efforts to become a responsible member of the international community, Tsai said.
She also listed a number of areas that her administration will target for reforms, including the pension system, college education and the country's economic structure.
In the meeting, which lasted nearly two and a half hours, Tsai and Armitage discussed cross-strait relations, and Taiwan's relations with other nations in Asia and the United States.
Tsai is "more than capable of handling cross-strait relations," Armitage said after the meeting.
During her trip to the U.S. last June, Tsai visited Armitage International LLC., a consulting company established by Armitage in 2005.
(By Sophia Yeh and Lilian Wu)
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