BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping told former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday (Apr 10) that outside inference could not stop the "family reunion" between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and that there are no issues that cannot be discussed.
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping told former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday that outside inference could not stop the"family reunion" between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and that there are no issues that cannot be discussed.
Ma had been widely expected to meet Xi this time around, having first met Xi in Singapore in late 2015 for a landmark summit shortly before current Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen won the election. Xi did not elaborate but in Chinese terminology referring to external interference over Taiwan is generally aimed at the support Taipei gets from Western countries like the United States, especially arms sales which infuriate Beijing."There is no rancour that cannot be resolved, no problem that cannot be discussed, and no force that can separate us."Ma told Xi that tensions have caused unease for many Taiwanese.
Responding to the meeting, Taiwan's China-policy making Mainland Affairs Council said it deeply regretted that Ma did not publicly convey Taiwan's people's insistence on defending the sovereignty and democratic system of the Republic of China, which remains Taiwan's formal name.
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