Taiwan plan to eventually reunite with China.

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Taiwan party leader affirms eventual reunion with China

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BEIJING (AP) — The head of Taiwan's Nationalists reaffirmed the party's support for eventual unification with the mainland when he met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of continuing rapprochement between the former bitter enemies.

Nationalist Party Chairman Eric Chu, a likely presidential candidate next year, also affirmed Taiwan's desire to join the proposed Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank during the meeting in Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and doesn't want the island to join using a name that might imply it is an independent country.

Chu's comments during his meeting with Xi were carried live on Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix Television.

The Nationalists were driven to Taiwan by Mao Zedong's Communists during the Chinese civil war in 1949, leading to decades of hostility between the sides. Chu, who took over as party leader in January, is the third Nationalist chairman to visit the mainland and the first since 2009.

Relations between the communist-ruled mainland and the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan began to warm in the 1990s, partly out of their common opposition to Taiwan's formal independence from China, a position advocated by the island's Democratic Progressive Party.

Despite increasingly close economic ties, the prospect of political unification has grown increasingly unpopular on Taiwan, especially with younger voters. Opposition to the Nationalists' pro-China policies was seen as a driver behind heavy local electoral defeats for the party last year that led to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou resigning as party chairman.

 

[TaiShang]

Chu to raise Taiwan's international participation with Xi
2015-05-04

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A panoramic shot of the great Hall of the People in Beijing, May 4. (Photo/CNA)

Eric Chu, chair of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang, is expected to convey Taiwan's hope of participating in more international organizations in talks with Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China and China's president, on Monday morning, sources said.

Unlike similar meetings in the past, the leaders of the ruling parties in Taiwan and China will not have private talks such as a dinner or a less formal chat over tea.

Instead, Chu and Xi will each lead a 10-member delegation into a meeting which is expected to last an hour on Monday morning. The nine others on each side are said to include business leaders, youth representatives as well as party officials.

Chu has said that he will raise the issue of Taiwan's international participation during his talks with Xi, including possible membership in the China-proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. He said he will hold a press conference in the afternoon to brief reporters on the talks.

Chu is the third KMT chair to meet the leader of the CPC in recent years and the second to do so when the KMT has been in power in Taiwan.

Lien Chan met with then-general secretary Hu Jintao in 2005 and Wu Po-hsiung met with Hu in 2008 and again in 2009.

Chu, who is on a three-day visit to China, arrived in Beijing on Sunday from Shanghai, where he attended an annual economic and cultural forum between the KMT and CPC and a meeting with over 100 Taiwanese businesspeople in China.

After the talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Chu will speak to students and faculty members at Peking University.

Later Monday, Chu and members of his delegation will visit the Temple of Azure Clouds, which houses a Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall.



Xi Jinping (R), general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu on Monday, May 4, 2015 in Beijing. This has been Chu's first visit to the mainland since he was elected KMT chairman in January. [Photo: ecns.cn/ Sheng Jiapeng]



Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, called for both sides of the Taiwan Strait to build a community of shared destiny and settle political differences through equal consultations.

Xi made the remarks during a meeting with visiting Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu in Beijing on Monday.

The meeting took place in the Great Hall of the People and is the first between Xi and Chu, bringing broad attention and expectations.

Stressing the 1992 Consensus is the foundation for the exchanges with Taiwan authorities and political parties, Xi said the mainland is willing to take the lead to share the development opportunities with Taiwan compatriots.

"We are willing to give priority to Taiwan in opening-up. Our efforts to open up to Taiwan compatriots will be bigger," he said.

Both the CPC and KMT should be brave when facing lingering political differences and difficulties, pool wisdom of compatriots of both sides and actively search for a solution, he said.

"The two sides can consult with each other on equal basis under the principle of One China, and reach a reasonable arrangement," Xi said.

The meeting is part of Chu's first visit to the mainland since he was elected KMT chairman in January. He met with Yu Zhengsheng, top political advisor and member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, on Saturday and attended the 10th Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Culture Forum in Shanghai on Sunday.

 

[Beidou2020]

Taiwan is pretty much completely isolated internationally due to the rise of Mainland China and its power.

Taiwan has no other choice but to get closer with the Mainland.

Give it a few years, the Taiwanese will come begging to Mainland for acceptance.

Classic, winning the war without firing a bullet strategy.

China's economy is the key to all this.

 

[slng]

Indeed, otherwise TW will fare themselves to be like north Korean. Isolated and poor.

 

[bobsm]

That's a given.

 

[Wolfhound]

That's a given.

But do the Taiwanese people want to rejoin? I am not talking about the government or a few business men.

 

[bobsm]

But do the Taiwanese people want to rejoin? I am not talking about the government or a few business men.

Most want to maintain the current status quo. But I see no future for Taiwan without the mainland. Most Taiwanese know it, but some are just too full of hatred to admit it.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

Taiwan is pretty much completely isolated internationally due to the rise of Mainland China and its power.

Taiwan has no other choice but to get closer with the Mainland.

Give it a few years, the Taiwanese will come begging to Mainland for acceptance.

Classic, winning the war without firing a bullet strategy.

China's economy is the key to all this.

Absolutely, and this will only happen when China has surpassed Taiwan in almost all metrics on a per capita basis.

Keep Going China!

 

[Keel]

But do the Taiwanese people want to rejoin? I am not talking about the government or a few business men.

There are many commonalities across the Strait which may be absent from Indo-Pak ties I presume!

Chinese Art Print Painting

 

[Wolfhound]

There are many commonalities across the Strait which may be absent from Indo-Pak ties I presume!

Chinese Art Print Painting

There are some alot of them if you truly want to see but the main difference between us is religion and the culture associated with it. This may seam very little but is indeed enormous. Both religions are very dominant and entirely different in nature and can not live together in an nonsecular society, if we do we might as well tear each other apart. When the british were here we both lived peacefully because it was a forced secular environment but as soon as they gave us more and more power we once again became nonsecular and then divided. If either country becomes truly secular, we would not have any nonstrategic feuds and behave, like we do with the rest of the world.

 

[Lord ZeN]

Absolutely, and this will only happen when China has surpassed Taiwan in almost all metrics on a per capita basis.
Keep Going China!

Nah ..Cutting off American influence would suffice.

 

[terranMarine]

Mainland and TW are inseparable, it's as simple as that. Our renegade province cannot escape China's sphere of influence, only a matter of time as their future depends on Mainland. The sooner the youth realize it the better. More graduates even seek jobs in Mainland so that's a nice development.

 

[Keel]

There are some alot of them if you truly want to see but the main difference between us is religion and the culture associated with it. This may seam very little but is indeed enormous. Both religions are very dominant and entirely different in nature and can not live together in an nonsecular society, if we do we might as well tear each other apart. When the british were here we both lived peacefully because it was a forced secular environment but as soon as they gave us more and more power we once again became nonsecular and then divided. If either country becomes truly secular, we would not have any nonstrategic feuds and behave, like we do with the rest of the world.

Yes you have answered one of the key aspects of my point
Not only can you see the dichotomy between Pakistan and India as 2 sovereign nations but also between the different religious secs WITHIN India: the Sikhs vs Hindus, Bhuddists Christians ... vs Hindus and these religious minorities vs the Muslims etc and repeat those when one is to conceive how Pakistan and India can be merged as one

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[ArsalanKhan21]

There are many commonalities across the Strait which may be absent from Indo-Pak ties I presume!

Yes you have answered one of the key aspects of my point
Not only can you see the dichotomy between Pakistan and India as 2 sovereign nations but also between the different religious secs WITHIN India: the Sikhs vs Hindus, Bhuddists Christians ... vs Hindus and these religious minorities vs the Muslims etc and repeat those when one is to conceive how Pakistan and India can be merged as one

Let us not derail this thread by discussing Pakistan-India instead of China-Taiwan.

 

[Keel]

The unification if successful can provide guidance to possible unifications for some other countries / people!

Before reunited , give up the Itu Aba island First.

We dont have an island / reef called Itu Aba
You may recover it somewhere else

Chinese wood sculpture