Want China Times, Lan Hsiao-wei and Staff Reporter 2014-06-26
The upcoming meeting between Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) chief Wang Yu-chi and China's Taiwan Affairs Office head Zhang Zhijun is poised to enhance both countries' mutual trust, and is an opportunity for the two sides to recognize each other's sovereignty, reports our Chinese-language sister paper China Times.
Zhang Zhijun, left, shakes hands with Wang Yu-chi after arriving in Taiwan on a four-day tour, June 26. (Photo/Yao Chih-ping) |
The upcoming meeting between Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) chief Wang Yu-chi and China's Taiwan Affairs Office head Zhang Zhijun is poised to enhance both countries' mutual trust, and is an opportunity for the two sides to recognize each other's sovereignty, reports our Chinese-language sister paper China Times.
Zhang,
China's top cross-strait negotiator, arrived in Taiwan on June 25, and will
meet with his Taiwanese counterpart Wang during his unprecedented four-day
trip, as well as New Taipei city mayor Eric Chu, a member of the ruling KMT,
and Kaohsiung mayor Chen Chu, a member of the opposition Democratic Progressive
Party (DPP).
Zhang
Nienchi, an academic of Shanghai Institute for East Asian Studies, said that
Wang and Zhang will establish an even better basis to solve political problems
between the two sides. They will also pay more attention to the use of the
"Republic of China (ROC)" to refer to Taiwan, Zhang said. He added
that the TAO head is the first Chinese politican to ever urge Beijing to give
importance to the appellation of "Republic of China."
"Most
people who fuss about the status of 'a citizen of the Republic of China' hope
to have some respect before China annexes Taiwan; and that if China does not
recognize the ROC, it would be like a decapitated human body, because the
remains without the head would be useless. The people with such ideas might not
be supporting Taiwan's independence," said Zhang Nienchi.
Zhang said
he believes that issues related with the ROC's legitimacy will be harder to
avoid in the future, and the upcoming meeting between the two top negotiators
will force China to face the reality on Taiwan's status.
Meanwhile,
Yang Lixian, a deputy secretary-general of the Beijing-based National Society
of Taiwan Studies, said that Taiwan's political status is not something that
either the Communist Party of China, the KMT or the DPP can clearly define;
this is also what causes the lack of mutual trust across the Taiwan Strait.
Without such mutual trust, it would be impossible to have any kind of military
mutual trust or a peace treaty.
Yang said
Beijing feels uncomfortable with the "equal political entity" concept
that the KMT government proposed in 1991 because it failed to depict China the
way it was pictured in the international world.
Yang said
it is normal and obvious that Taiwanese people decide on their own fate, but
the differences in both countries' ideology, political system and power are too
big as to make Taiwanese people fear about China. "The fairest way would
be to decide that neither Taipei nor Beijing should have the right to change
the situation in each other's respective country," said Yang.
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