KMT task force unveils four pillars for stable, peaceful cross-strait relationsBy Shih Hsaio-kuang and Dennis Xie / Staff reporter, with staff writerA Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) task force on cross-strait discourse has proposed new guidelines for the construction of stable and peaceful relations across the Taiwan Strait as part of the party’s reform efforts. In its presentation, the task force proposed that the “1992 consensus” should be viewed as “a historical description of past cross-strait interaction.”Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Johnny Chiang speaks at a meeting of the party’s reform committee in Taipei yesterday. Although past KMT administrations had deemed the “1992 consensus” an important basis for seeking common ground in cross-strait interaction, the term has been marred by President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration, the task force said. The KMT would continue to promote long-term economic and trade relations across the Strait, but would ensure that the fruits of such economic development benefit the majority of Taiwanese, the task force said. “We will do everything we can for peace, but we will never kneel down for it,” the task force said.

Source: Taipei Times June 19, 2020 15:56 UTC