{"id":20017,"date":"2017-01-21T07:59:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T07:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=20017"},"modified":"2017-01-21T12:46:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T12:46:04","slug":"china-sees-grim-situation-in-relations-with-taiwan-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/china-sees-grim-situation-in-relations-with-taiwan-this-year.html","title":{"rendered":"China sees grim situation in relations with Taiwan this year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China sees grim situation in relations with Taiwan this year<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

China sees grim situation in relations with Taiwan this year:-<\/strong> Relations between China and Taiwan this year will be “even more complex and grim” and Beijing will resolutely oppose any form of separatist activity, a senior Chinese official said, but added China would also maintain peace and stability.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yu Zhengsheng, the ruling Communist Party’s fourth ranked leader, was speaking at an annual work conference on policy towards the self-ruled island. His comments came in the wake of concerns that, under a new presidency, the United States is shifting its stance toward Taiwan.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump, who was inaugurated on Friday, broke with decades of precedent last month by taking a congratulatory telephone call from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen.<\/span><\/p>\n

That, along with subsequent comments by Trump that the “one China” policy was up for negotiation, has infuriated Beijing, which views Taiwan as a wayward province, to be brought under its control by force if necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Proudly democratic Taiwan has shown no interest in being run by China.<\/span><\/p>\n

China is deeply suspicious of Tsai, whose ruling Democratic Progressive Party espouses the island’s formal independence, a red line for Beijing, and has cut off a formal dialogue mechanism with the island.<\/span><\/p>\n

China must “resolutely oppose and check any form of ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist activity, maintain national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and maintain the peaceful development of cross-Taiwan Strait relations and peace and stability”, state-run Xinhua news agency paraphrased Yu as saying.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a letter to Pope Francis released by her office on Friday, Tsai said Taiwan aspires to create a “new era” of peace with China as military action cannot resolve problems.<\/span><\/p>\n

Defeated Nationalist forces fled from China to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with the Communists.<\/span><\/p>\n

The report made no mention of Tsai’s letter to the Pope. The Vatican is one of a handful of countries to maintain formal ties with Taiwan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yu said that China would seek to “unite” all parties and groups in Taiwan that accept both sides of the Taiwan Strait are part of “one China”.<\/span><\/p>\n

China will also look at ways of making life easier for Taiwanese people to invest, work and live in China, Yu added, without giving details.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since ties began thawing in the 1980s, Taiwanese have invested billions in China, attracted by a common culture and language and the lure of China’s vast market and cheap pool of labor.<\/span><\/p>\n

SourceL:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-taiwan-idUSKBN15503X<\/span><\/div>\n

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