China Cuts Contacts With Taiwan Over President Tsai
MEP: Beijing announced it had cut off and has no more contact with the main China-Taiwan liaison bodies because of President Tsai Ing-wen’s refusal to endorse the concept of a single Chinese nation.
In a statement posted on the website of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office on Saturday, spokesman An Fengshan said communication had been stopped since May 20, when Tsai Ing-wen took office.
Tsai, who heads the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, says she wants to maintain the status quo with China and is committed to ensuring peace.
“Because the Taiwan side has been unable to confirm the ‘92 consensus that embodies the common political foundation of the One-China principle, the mechanism for contact and communication between the two sides has already been suspended,” An added.
The consensus refers to an agreement reached in 1992 between Beijing and Taipei, under which both sides acknowledged the existence of a single Chinese nation comprising both Taiwan and the mainland.
