Mainland Experts Size up CPC Policy Towards Taiwan

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Mainland Experts Size up CPC Policy Towards Taiwan

Seven mainland experts lately in an interview with Hong Kong-based China Review gave their view on the Taiwan issue, saying President Jiang Zemin's report made at the CPC 16th National Congress marked not only the continuance of CPC's policy towards Taiwan, but also advanced more flexible and practical proposals in light of the new situations and features of the cross-Straits relations.

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Seven mainland experts lately in an interview with Hong Kong-based China Review gave their view on the Taiwan issue. They said that President Jiang Zemin's report made at the CPC 16th National Congress marked not only the continuance of CPC's policy towards Taiwan, but also advanced more flexible and practical proposals in light of the new situations and features of the cross-Straits relations.

The seven experts are Deputy Director Yu Keli and his colleague Li Jiaquan of Taiwan Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,; research fellow Xin Qi, China Peace and Development Research Center; Cao Zhizhou, deputy permanent secretary-general of National Taiwan Institute; research fellow Li Jiaquan, Taiwan Studies Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; research fellow Guo Zhenyuan, China International Studies Institute; Prof. Chen Kongli, Taiwan Institute, Xiamen University; Deputy Director Yin Cunyi, Taiwan Institute, Tsinghua University.

The experts held that the general policy towards Taiwan revealed in Jiang's report was related to China's development objectives set out at the CPC 16th National Congress. The revitalization of the Chinese nation is the supreme objective, while it is integrated with reunification of the nation and the drive of modernization. Thereby, not only did President Jiang call on overseas Chinese nationals as well as those across the Taiwan Straits to jointly promote the nation's revitalization and modernization construction, but also stressed that the whole nation should try its utmost to fulfill the peaceful reunification of the motherland.

The experts pointed out that the "One China" principle is the CPC's consistent stance. President Jiang reiterated the significance of the stance and the resolution against "Taiwan Independence" in his report. Although "One China" is by no means a new explanation, it is the first time that the principle has been referred to in reports made at CPC's National Congresses.

In a sense, the root cause of the Taiwan issue lies in the island's political status. President Jiang restated that with the principle of "One China" any question was open to negotiation, including Taiwan's political status and the international space for economic and cultural undertakings in an appropriate capacity. As for the island's international space, top Chinese leaders once held discussions among themselves, while in the just-ended 16th CPC National Congress President Jiang made a public exposition for the first time. Such a move deserves special attention, the experts added.

Pinpointing the Taiwan authorities' claim that they had extended much goodwill but got no response from the mainland, the experts rebutted that the so-called goodwill was no more than petty tricks. Instead, the Chinese mainland expressed concrete good intentions in terms of vital problems, especially those of concern to the Taiwan people and personages of all circles.

Deciphering Jiang's report, the experts said that China's peaceful reunification is the main message and pins its hope on the Taiwan people. The country's reunification is to the advantages of Taiwan; non-governmental cross-Straits cultural exchanges will be actively promoted; military force is to be used only to cope with external interference in China's reunification and strike diehards and separatists of "Taiwan Independence" and plotters blocking an early resolution of the Taiwan issue.

By PD Online Staff Zhu Lizhen

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