Taiwan's KMT party tells China it is pushing for peace

[uawchild]

Source: Reuters

Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party is pushing for peace with mainland China and holds out the possibility of a peace pact, the party's chairwoman told Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday, the party said.

Xi, general secretary of the Communist Party and China's president, met a delegation led by KMT chairwoman Hung Hsiu-Chu at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, the Xinhua news agency reported.

Taiwan, which relies on the United States for arms sales, has ruled itself as a rival to China since the end of a Chinese civil war in 1949. Beijing sees the island as a renegade province that must be reunited with the mainland, by force if necessary.

Hung, once a presidential candidate, said the KMT would play an active role in pushing for the "institutionalisation" of peaceful relations between the two sides and for the possibility of a peace pact, the KMT said in a statement released in Taiwan.


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Taiwan is a vibrant democracy, its nice to see that a major political party like the KMT thinks that peaceful relations with mainland China are not only an aspiration but are an achievable goal.

Give peace a chance.

[cstanleytech]

1. Well it's certainly worth pursuing, who knows maybe they can get the mainland

government to give them a mostly hands off type thing for the island kind of like Hong Kong.

[uawchild]

2. China is playing the long game

I think you are right, that a very slow gradual integration occurs like as is occurring with Hong Kong and Macao could happen with Taiwan also. As China liberalizes into becoming a nation that respects the rule of law, such integration will occur faster.

[Feeling the Bern]

3. Taiwanese people will not accept this. They don't trust Beijing worth nothing, especially with how

Beijing is trying to undermine the vibrant democracy of Hong Kong.

[uawchild]

4. The current elected government certainly won't

But, being a vibrant democracy, the Taiwanese people might feel it worthwhile to pursue the KMT's position if and when the elected government changes. Time will tell.

The KMT formed the last government, I think, and perhaps they will form one in the relatively near future. What's that old saying? Never say never?