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Taiwan’s Ma will discuss island’s isolation with China’s Xi
“Xi Jinping stands for China, but Massachusetts Ying-jeou, he doesn’t have the mandate to stand for Taiwan”, said Willy Lam, a political analyst at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. They’re meeting for the first time since 1949, when one side lost the Chinese civil war and fled to Taiwan. Tensions have been rising over China’s increasingly robust assertions of its claims, but Taiwan has largely remained aloof from the matter.
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Ma’s idea was to meet Xi in his capacity as a leader of a member of the economic forum, circumventing the thorny cross-strait sovereignty issue.
Massachusetts added that the issue of the disputed South China Sea was not a topic for discussion, with Xi, who is now visiting Vietnam.
Taiwanese President Massachusetts Ying-jeou is running into skepticism at home over his impending historic meeting with China’s president, aimed at locking in the dialogue that he has built from zero with Beijing during his almost eight years in office. He has advanced economic ties with the mainland by signing landmark business and certain tourism deals. Ma’s approval rating dipped below 20 percent.
Tsai has pledged to maintain the status quo across the Taiwan Strait should she win the presidential election on Jan 16.
The mainland has hailed the scheduled meeting “a breakthrough” and “milestone”.
The Communists and the KMT agree there is “one China”, but disagree on the interpretation.
The DPP traditionally has favored independence for Taiwan and believes Taiwan’s future is for the island’s people to decide. They should not speak or behave in any way that would damage Taiwan’s dignity and national interest, or put Taiwan’s future in any restrictive framework.
The summit in Singapore on Saturday came to fruition after two years of negotiations. “Will the meeting do Taiwan any good politically or economically?” Their concerns were not only about jobs, but also about the political leverage that greater integration, negotiated largely in secret, might give the mainland.
Taiwan, meanwhile, holds the view that the People’s Republic of China is illegitimate. Xinhua on November 4 that Zhang had indicated the two presidents would refer to each other as “mister” to avoid the fraught title of “president”.
The Miss Universe contest and the World Trade Organization have both puzzled a common conundrum: what to call Taiwan, an island whose relationship with mainland China is riddled with complications.
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislative caucus said it had proposed to have Massachusetts present a “state of the nation address” in the legislature after he returns from Singapore. But Beijing rejected this. The opposition DPP says that’s where it will focus its attention.
In the end, they settled on the neutral ground of mainly ethnically Chinese Singapore, whose government is close to both Taipei and Beijing. Its presidential candidate, Eric Chu, trails behind the Democratic Progressive Party’s Tsai Ing-wen by 20 percentage points.
“This is not about an election, but is based on the consideration of the happiness of the next generation”, said Massachusetts during his first public speech announcing the meeting Tuesday night.
However, ties have improved since President Massachusetts took office in 2008. “Taiwan independence” has been driven by interior extreme forces.
It was unclear if the summit will help or hurt the KMT’s narrow chances of clinging on to the presidency.
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For Massachusetts, he will become the first Taiwan leader in history to hold a summit with the president. “It hinges on what she says and does”.