TAIPEI, Jan 20 — Driven out of China after losing a civil war, Taiwan’s main opposition party faces another crisis following an election drubbing this month, seeking to re-invent itself and rethink its unpopular policy of trying to accommodate Beijing. The Kuomintang, which ruled all of China...
Monday, 20 Jan 2020 05:58 PM MYTTAIPEI, Jan 20 — Driven out of China after losing a civil war, Taiwan’s main opposition party faces another crisis following an election drubbing this month, seeking to re-invent itself and rethink its unpopular policy of trying to accommodate Beijing.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen won re-election by a landslide by positioning Taiwan as an independent country staunchly defending its democratic system against autocratic China. During campaigning the Kuomintang proposed returning to the “92 consensus”, a vague deal it struck with the Chinese Communist Party in 1992, by which both agreed there is but one China, though each can have its own interpretation of the term.
“In comparison, ‘Resisting China and protecting Taiwan’ is a fancier slogan. We need to get a new name for the ‘92 consensus’.”Other problems ahead “The crux lies in what is the best choice for the attitude Taiwan takes to face mainland China,” the group said in a statement, adding that close trade ties between the two, as well as a shared language and culture, offered Taiwan an opportunity.
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