KMT News Release

KMT News Release

Nov.9, 2008

DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen requested that President Ma Ying-jeou cancel the Kuomintang-Chinese Communist Party (KMT-CCP) platform for consultations. KMT Deputy Secretary-general Chang Jung-kung responded that Tsai was attempting to jeopardize the peaceful development of relationships across the Taiwan Strait by disrupting the KMT-CCP platform and throwing up roadblocks between the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) and the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF). Chang derided Tsai for being a trouble-maker uninterested in harmony.

Chang stated, “The ARATS-SEF channel was the only channel established during the KMT administration in 1991 to sign cross-Strait agreements. However, the ARATS-SEF channel had ceased to function during the eight-year DPP administration, including the period when Tsai had served as Chairperson of the Mainland Affairs Council and Vice Premier. It was obvious that the DPP had intentionally halted cross-Strait institutional consultations and that its final objective was to curb cross-Strait peaceful development of relationships in order to strengthen the Taiwan Independence movement by creating crises in the Taiwan Strait.”

Chang added, “The KMT-CCP platform was established three and half years ago. The platform had achieved to ease the tension that resulted from the Mainland’s ‘Anti-Secession Law’ and the DPP’s campaign to ‘Rectify Names and write a new constitution’, and avoid a possible military conflict in the Taiwan Strait. The first point of consensus reached by then KMT Chairman Lien Chan and the CCP General-Secretary Hu Jing-tao ‘was to resume cross-Strait consultations on the basis of parity and the 1992 consensus’. If the Chen Shui-bian administration had accepted the above-mentioned point, the DPP could have accomplished the same results reached by the ARATS and SEF last week. But the DPP had not given a thought to the point and intentionally distorted the 1992 consensus, saying it was tantamount to a surrender to the CCP. The truth has now prevailed over their lies.”

Chang stated, “The KMT-CCP platform confirmed that the ARATS and the SEF would resume consultations after the KMT came to power on May 20. The KMT administration was in charge of the resumption of consultations between the ARATS and SEF, and reached two agreements in June and four agreements last week. I should stress that the consultation channel between the ARATS and SEF was created by the KMT administration and we will defend it with all our efforts and will not tolerate the DPP’s malicious criticism now that the KMT has returned to power.”

“In the face of comprehensive exchanges across the Taiwan Strait, there was no single ground to exclude party-to-party exchanges, particularly the dialogue between the heads of the KMT and the CCP or large-scale forums between the two parties. The KMT will not do what the DPP had done in power. Some members of the DPP even secretly went to the Mainland to ask for permission regarding their New Constitution draft,” Chang added.

Chang pointed out, “Tsai feared that improved cross-Strait relations garnered more support from the public in Taiwan and the international community than the role of trouble-maker that the DPP had played before. The DPP, on the one hand, tried to use the slogan of sovereignty to replace its previous Taiwan independence propaganda. On the other hand, the DPP plotted to impede the consultation channel between the ATRATS and the SEF, and disrupt the KMT-CCP platform. If the DPP succeeded, the cross-Strait peace would become a day-dream.”

Chang called on Tsai to admit that the DPP had incited the street riots on November 5 and 6, and not try to shift responsibility or make excuses to blur the public’s focus.

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