KMT Poses Four Questions for Tsai Ing-wen

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KMT Poses Four Questions for Tsai Ing-wen

KMT Cultural and Communications Committee

November 1, 2011

In a press conference on October 31, KMT spokesperson Lai Su-ju posed four questions for DPP Presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen: 1) Do you believe that the Republic of China (ROC) is a government in exile or that the ROC is an independent sovereign state? 2) Do you believe that ECFA is sugar-coated poison or do you accept the ECFA completely? 3) Do you support a dichotomy of communal conflict or true communal integration? 4) Do you support establishing a peaceful and stable cross-Strait interaction framework even if it fails to pass in a plebiscite or do you support a cross-Strait peace agreement only if it first passes in a plebiscite?  Lai asked Tsai to give the people in Taiwan clear answers to the above questions so that they could understand exactly what her positions were.

Lai stated that Tsai should answer the four questions before posing questions to KMT chairman Ma Ying-jeou.  Lai also noted that it was strange that when saying similar things on the same issue, the DPP was loving Taiwan but the KMT was selling out Taiwan.  Lai said that she hoped the 2012 Presidential election campaign would uphold high standards, with both candidates discussing and debating issues in public.  However, Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP once again distorted the issues and smeared President Ma Ying-jeou, which was a low blow and not the conduct or stature befitting a Presidential candidate.

Lai called on Tsai not to evade her responsibility as a Presidential candidate by saying one thing, while doing another.

KMT spokesperson Charles Chen stated that heavyweight figures in the pan-Green camp supported a cross-Strait peace agreement, adding that in 1996 former President Lee Teng-hui had once said that the 9^th-term ROC President should sign a cross-Strait peace agreement as a priority.  Moreover, seven years later, in 2004, when Tsai Ing-wen served as Mainland Affairs Council Chairperson, she said that she would push for the signing a peaceful and stable cross-Strait interaction framework, and in 2007 former President Chen Shui-bian also said that he welcomed the signing of a cross-Strait peace agreement.  Charles Chen went on to say that Tsai Ing-wen had mentioned three times in 3 or 4 months the DPP’s willingness to discuss a lasting interaction framework, and Tsai’s Platform for the Next Decade also included the establishment of a peaceful and stable cross-Strait interaction framework through multi-level dialogues.

Charles Chen stated that peace belonged to all the people in Taiwan, not just to the DPP.  Charles Chan added that the DPP did not have a patent on peace, and the DPP did not have the exclusive right to talk about peace.  Charles Chen called on Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP not to delude themselves.

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