Xi Jinping received the leader of the Taiwanese opposition in Beijing and told him: “Taiwan's independence must not be tolerated”
The President of China, Xi Jinping, met on Friday in Beijing with Cheng Li-wun, the president of the Kuomintang party (KMT, the largest opposition party in Taiwan), informs Agerpres citing the Chinese agency Xinhua.
Invited by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Xi Jinping, Cheng Li-wun, the first KMT president to lead a delegation to the Chinese mainland in the past decade, visited Jiangsu province and Shanghai before coming to Beijing.
Xi expressed his willingness to work with all political parties in Taiwan, including the Kuomintang (KMT), as well as groups and individuals from all sectors to strengthen exchanges and dialogue, promote peace across the Taiwan Strait, increase people's welfare, and promote “national revitalization” based on the 1992 Consensus (on the one-China principle) and opposition to “Taiwan independence.”
“Taiwan independence” – the main culprit undermining peace
He also called for closer ties between the two sides of the strait, stressing that “differences between social systems should not be an excuse for secession.”
Xi called for the protection of the common homeland through peaceful development, explaining that the central issue in this regard is the recognition that both sides of the strait belong to one China.
“We welcome any proposals that lead to the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, and we will spare no effort to promote any steps that promote such a development,” Xi said, noting that “Taiwan independence” is the main culprit undermining peace in the Taiwan Strait. “We should not accept it or tolerate it,” the Chinese leader pointed out.
