'The two sides must maintain exchanges, cooperate together, and do everything possible to avoid war and conflict,' says former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou.
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan and China must do everything possible to avoid war and it is the responsibility of both sides’ leaders to ensure peace, former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou told a senior Chinese official on Thursday, March 30.
Meeting Song Tao, head of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, Ma said maintaining the peaceful and stable development of relations is the “general mainstream view of Taiwanese society”. “The two sides must maintain exchanges, cooperate together, and do everything possible to avoid war and conflict.”Ma is visiting China at a time of heightened tension between Taipei and Beijing, as China ramps up military and diplomatic pressure to try and force the democratically governed island to accept Chinese sovereignty.
Tsai rejects China’s sovereignty claims, saying only the island’s people can decide their future. She has repeatedly offered talks with China but been rebuffed, as Beijing views her as a separatist.
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