Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Beijing open for
'equal' dialogues with Taipei.
Another historic
move for cross-Strait relations. Only a week after a historic meeting between the
head of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office of China and Taiwan’s
counterpart in Nanjing, Xi Jinping, the head of the party and nation met the
former Premier and Vice President of the Republic of China. At the meeting, Xi expressed
respect for Taiwan’s political system and readiness for equal talks to promote
peaceful development of cross-Straits relations.
After the end of
World War II, the Chinese Civil War resumed between Chiang Kai-shek led Chinese
Nationalists (Kuomintang) and Mao Zedong’s Chinese Communist Party. In December
1949, Chiang evacuated his government to Taiwan with 2 million people from
mainland China along with many China’s national treasures, gold reserves and
foreign currency reserves. Today, while the People’s Republic of China is
officially and diplomatically recognized in the international community,
Taiwan, or the Republic of China isn’t recognized by almost any countries or
the United Nations. However, even without official relationship between the
cross-Strait states, they’ve been enjoying strong economic relations for the
past decades.
Will the day come
soon when Taiwan becomes part of China on the world map? (already is in the
maps in China) Will that be something the U.S. and other neighboring countries want
to see?
Enjoy reading and
learning about China’s recent friendly moves and messages to Taiwan.
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