KMT vows to keep working to stabilize cross-strait ties
ROC Central News Agency
2016/11/03 20:33:00
Taipei, Nov. 3 (CNA) Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱), chairwoman of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), said Thursday her party will continue its efforts to help stabilize relations with China.
The KMT leader made the remark upon her return to Taiwan from a five-day visit to China, during which she paid tribute to the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the KMT and the Republic of China, in Nanjing and met with Communist Party of China chief Xi Jingping (習近平)in Beijing.
"During our stay there, we experienced the warmth of our hosts and the goodwill and sincerity of their leader (Xi)," Hung said.
She said China will soon reach out to her party by hosting agricultural and tourism fairs staged by eight Taiwan cities or counties that are led KMT members.
The eight pan-blue local government heads visited China in September amid criticism from the pan-green camp, including the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, of kowtowing to the communists.
"In spite of the ruling party criticisms, we will walk our path slowly and do what we should slowly," Hung said. "Eventually people will understand."
The KMT will keep doing whatever is good for the people of Taiwan, she said, referring to conclusions reached at the latest annual meeting between the KMT and the CPC in Beijing.
Delegates from both sides stressed the need to deepen the "1992 consensus" -- a tacit agreement between Taipei and Beijing that there is only one China, with each side free to interpret what it means.
President Tsai Ing-wen's (蔡英文) DPP administration has refused to accept the existence of such a consensus, and China has responded by cutting off all official channels of communications with Taiwan.
During the two-day Cross-Strait Peace Development Forum between the KMT and CPC, a Chinese scholar called on the DPP to "return to the right path" of the "1992 consensus."
By so doing, the DPP will be able to build mutual trust with Beijing and jointly maintain the peaceful development of cross-strait ties, said Zhou Zhihuai (周志懷), deputy president of the Beijing-based National Society of Taiwan Studies.
Responding to the comment, Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正), vice chairman of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, said in Taipei that maintaining the peaceful development of cross-strait ties is the "common duty" of both governments and the "common expectation" of people on both sides as well as of the international community.
He called on China to hold "constructive dialogue" with Taiwan to break the current stalemate and settle differences and disputes so as to build "stable and harmonious" relations across the strait.
It rests with the Chinese leaders whether or not to improve cross-strait ties, Chiu said.
(By Chiu Chun-chin, Wang Hung-kuo, Chen Chia-lun and S.C. Chang)
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