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Taiwan’s Massachusetts to Push China for ‘Expanded worldwide Space’
The answer is in the history.
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Most of the world’s countries recognized Taiwan in the 1960s, but only 22 do now: all relatively small Latin American, Caribbean, African and Pacific island nations, plus the Vatican.
The official announcement of the Singapore meeting came only after the Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper) published an online exclusive at about 10:30pm on Tuesday that Massachusetts was to meet Xi in Singapore during the Chinese leader’s visit to the city-state.
“Therefore we will raise this issue…in order to come to a few agreement for greater global space for Taiwan”.
Gathering in front of the Legislative Yuan in anticipation of Secretary-General of the Presidential Office Tseng Yung-chuan (曾永權) and Premier Mao Chi-kuo’s (毛治國) briefing to Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) on the nature of the meeting, members of the Social Democratic Party, Green Party, Free Taiwan Party and New Power Party gathered separately at the front gates of the legislature denouncing the motivations behind the meeting.
The governments of Taiwan and China do not recognize each other and working out a few agreement about how the two should address one another has always been a stumbling block to such high-level talks.
Speculations on Ma’s motives in arranging a meeting with President Xi stemmed from the poor showing of his pro-China Kuomintang party in the presidential and parliamentary polls scheduled in January.
Talks at such a time could help reduce hostilities in the short term, Massachusetts said, adding that he hoped future leaders of Taiwan would be able to hold such meetings.
Democratic Progressive Party chief Tsai Ing-wen – who is poised to win the presidency – was skeptical, questioning why the summit was so hastily organized. “We will make every effort to be open and transparent”.
The People’s Republic of China (mainland China or just “China”) and the Republic of China (“Taiwan”) separated in 1949 following the Communists’ victory in the Chinese Civil War.
“All of us Taiwanese people believe Massachusetts Ying-jeou will sign a peace accord with Xi Jinping and of course it’s going to be done in secret”, said Hung Te-jen, 56, member of the advocacy group Freedom Taiwan Party. “When the accord is signed”.
Viewed through a different lens, the meeting is a significant achievement in China’s long-game to bring “its long lost brother” back into the fold, said Xu Shiquan, a senior researcher at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of Taiwan Studies. Singapore enjoys the trust of Beijing and Taipei, and is willing to play the bridging role.
In July, state broadcaster China Central Television showed footage of a military exercise that seemed to involve mainland troops training to storm the presidential palace in Taipei.
Taiwanese recoiled at Xi’s advice in 2013 against putting off political issues from one generation to the next and last year’s suggestion that Beijing rule Taiwan as a special administrative region like Hong Kong. “The object of our decision is not the next election”, he said at a news conference Thursday.
“This is not about an election, but is based on the consideration of the happiness of the next generation”.
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A few analysts doubt the summit will boost the Nationalists, suggesting the two sides may discuss how to continue party-to-party exchanges if the Nationalists lose power and Beijing chafes at an opposition government.