The first-ever meeting between leaders of China and Taiwan was held on November 7.
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He said that Xi told Ma China mainland would be committed to enhancing the relationship to work for Chinese rejuvenation to benefit people from both sides.
Presidents Xi Jinping of China and Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan shook hands and waved before the media and then met in a function room of a hotel in the Southeast Asian island nation of Singapore, chosen as neutral ground.
Zhang: Xi emphasized that people on both sides belong to one family, and as long as the family is well, both sides will prosper.
Zhang said the two leaders have candid and in-depth discussions about promoting peaceful development and rejuvenating the nation, adding they reached a consensus on better advancing the peaceful development of the cross-Strait relations.
“The Ma-Xi meeting wasn’t aimed at interfering in Taiwan’s elections”.
“We are sitting together today to prevent the historical tragedy from repeating itself, prevent the fruits of peaceful development of cross-Strait ties from being lost again, enable compatriots across the Strait to continue to create a peaceful life, and enable our next generations to share a bright future”, he said.
Reports indicate that the Taiwanese leader decided early on not to bring up the disputes in the South China Sea.with the Chinese leader.
Following the normalization of economic relations and institutionalisation of civil exchanges, cross-Straits affairs chiefs of the two sides set a precedent by holding a direct high level dialogue in 2013, which was a giant step toward deepeningmutual political trust.
But Ma’s KMT party chairman and nominee Eric Chu is thought unlikely to defeat Democratic Progressive party candidate Tsai Ing-wen in the presidential election.
“Taiwan did not press for two Chinas, or one China, one Taiwan, or independence for Taiwan, which would be against the Taiwanese constitution, he said”. Beijing holds that “China” means the People’s Republic of China, encompassing Taiwan. Xi referred to Ma as “brother” and “comrade”. China has been quoted as saying that it will use force in the event that Taiwan pushes for independence.
“President Ma was the first to utter “Republic of China” (R.O.C.), “the R.O.C. Constitution, ‘ the ‘1992 Consensus, ‘ ‘one China, respective interpretations” and to underline the existence of two separate sovereign governments across the Taiwan Strait in front of a Chinese leader”, MAC head Andrew Hsia stated.
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The Global Times newspaper, which has close ties to China’s ruling Communist Party, said in an editorial Monday that she had “made gaffes”, describing her as “wrathful” in an attempt to “belittle the meeting”. And Taiwan wanted to avoid any appearance that it was subordinate to China.
