No preconditions for cross-strait exchanges: Presidential Office
ROC Central News Agency
2016/08/23 21:06:19
Taipei, Aug. 23 (CNA) The two sides of the Taiwan Strait should interact with each other meaningfully without preconditions in order to enhance mutual understanding, Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang (黃重諺) said Tuesday.
Huang said Taiwan and China should conduct more exchanges, including city-to-city exchanges, as long as such interaction will lead to better understanding between the two sides.
He was responding to remarks about the "1992 consensus" by Sha Hailin (沙海林), director of the Department of United Front Work of the Communist Party's Shanghai Municipal Committee.
At the annual Taipei-Shanghai forum held in the Taiwan capital Tuesday, Sha said cross-strait relations had been peaceful over the past eight years because both sides stuck to the "1992 consensus."
The "1992 consensus" refers to a tacit agreement reached between Taipei and Beijing in 1992 that there is only "one China," with each side free to interpret what that means, but the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has never accepted its existence.
Accusing the new DPP government of refusing to recognize the "1992 Consensus," Chinese officials said in June that Beijing had suspended official dialogue with Taipei since Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) took office as Taiwan president on May 20.
(By Lu Hsin-hui and Y.F. Low)
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