Direct Cross-Straits Exchanges Inevitable: OfficialThe overall, direct exchanges of mail, trade, air and shipping services across the Taiwan Straits are inevitable and up to the will of all Chinese people.Wang Zaixi, deputy director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, made the remark here Monday in a meeting with a pro-cross-straits-exchanges delegation of the Taiwan-based People First Party (PFP) led by Liu Sung Pan. The Taiwan Authorities' policies to hamper direct cross-straits exchanges are against the will of the people living on the two sides of the straits and are detrimental to the interests of both sides, the official said. Wang urged the Taiwan Authorities to give up the wrong policies and end various kinds of restrictions. In the talks, the official reiterated the mainland's constant policies on the issue, saying that the exchanges must follow the One-China Principle, be direct and two-way, and mutually beneficial. The direct cross-straits exchanges are an internal affair of China and should be carried out on a people-to-people base and between industries and companies from the two sides, he noted. The eight-member PFP delegation has been visiting the mainland at the invitation by the Beijing-based Association of Relations Across the Taiwan Straits. |
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