Taipei, Beijing negotiate ‘one China’ principle
"DIFFERENCE OF OPINION:The MAC minister said whether the ‘one China’ principle is to be a point of consensus at the meeting would be made known today"
By Tzou Jiing-wen and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer / Taipei Times
"The Chinese government strongly desires that the “one China” principle be made one of the points of “consensus” to be announced after a historic meeting between President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九
and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平 in Singapore today.
However, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) officials said that they would prefer the meeting to be based on the so-called “1992 consensus.”
As of press time last night, the two sides were still negotiating the issue.
The “1992 consensus,” a term former Mainland Affairs Council chairman Su Chi (蘇起 admitted making up in 2000, refers to a tacit understanding between the KMT and the Chinese government that both sides of the Taiwan Strait acknowledge there is “one China,” with each side having its own interpretation of what “China” means.
The meeting is the first of its kind since the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lost the Chinese Civil War in 1949 and retreated to Taiwan and its outlying islands.
Ma said the meeting with Xi would not result in any accords, or promises to sign accords of any sort, nor a joint declaration, adding that a press conference would be held after the meeting to highlight the points on which both sides had reached a consensus."
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2015/11/07/2003631874
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Nice to see cold war tensions between China and Taiwan subsiding.
As China continues to modernize socially, perhaps it can follow Taiwan's political development from authoritarianism to liberal democracy, making eventual political unification between the two possible.