Ma and Lien Support Hung’s “One China, One Interpretation” Plank

 Ma and Lien Support Hung’s “One China, One Interpretation” Plank

Source: United Daily News

July 3, 2015

Hung Hsiu-Chu (洪秀柱), Deputy Legislative Speaker and KMT Presidential candidate in-waiting, has drawn some criticism over her “One China, One Interpretation” and cross-Strait peace agreement campaign planks. Yesterday, after visiting former KMT Chairman Lien Chan (連戰), Hung said Lien noted that a cross-Strait peace agreement was one of the “Five Visions” proposed in the 2005 Lien-Hu meeting. Lien said, “For the good of Taiwan, these visions must be carried out.”

Yesterday, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) also expressed his support for Hung. He pointed out that “One China, One Interpretation” and “One China, Different Interpretations” both emphasized the “commonalities” as in “seeking commonalities while shelving differences.”As for Hung’s insistence on “One China,” Ma continued, “it is almost identical to my advocacy that ‘One China’ is the ROC.” “One China, One Interpretation” is the same as the KMT’s cross-Strait policy, added Ma.

According to Hung, “One China, One Interpretation” was meant to enhance the 1992 Consensus. She said that a cross-Strait peace agreement would be signed on the basis of five principles, i.e., equality, peace, the ROC Constitution, the ROC vox populi, and comprehensive promotion, adding that the ruling and opposition parties must also reach a consensus. She added that the agreement was meant to safeguard and protect the ROC, so “why it is denounced as precipitous reunification?”

Hung said that the cross-Strait status quo included the fact that the two sides of the Strait had overlapping sovereignty. “However, one cannot acknowledge the existence of the ROC and the PRC at the same time as that is tantamount to one state on either side,” said Hung. But the jurisdictions of both sides were separate, so the peace agreement would be crucial for the ROC to break through its predicament and secure PRC recognition of the government of the Republic of China.

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