Posted on 10/09/2013 11:45:04 PM PDT by TexGrill
President Ma Ying-jeous (馬英九) administrations participation in the APEC summit has restricted Taiwans strategic options and international engagement with its sole focus on cross-strait relations at the annual meeting, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said yesterday.
The APEC summit, one of several international events that Taiwan takes part in as a full member, was supposed to be a setting where Taiwan could actively expand its international visibility and interaction. Unfortunately the Ma administration only approached the meeting as an arena for cross-strait political dialogue, DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said yesterday.
Former vice president Vincent Siew (蕭萬長), who represented Ma in his capacity as chairman of the Cross-Straits Common Market Foundation, praised the meeting as fruitful upon his return from Bali, Indonesia, yesterday.
Mas attitude toward the meeting was the reason Siew never challenged Chinese President Xi Jinpings (習近平) political statement about the one China principle during their 30-minute meeting on Sunday.
The international community could mistakenly believe that Taiwan acknowledged that it was part of China, Su said, adding that the delegation could have proposed more constructive initiatives and have promoted closer country-to-country cooperation if it had not been so focused on China.
Su reiterated the DPPs opposition of the one China framework and maintained that the political feud across the Taiwan Strait was not a continuation of the Chinese Civil War between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party.
Dialogue and negotiations between the two sides should never be conducted under the one China framework. Nor should Taiwans sovereignty be sacrificed in exchange for increased international participation, Su said.
(Excerpt) Read more at taipeitimes.com ...
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2013/10/09/390833/China-able.htm
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