Cross-straits Talks must be Based on One-China PrincipleLi Yafei, a vice secretary-general of the Association for Relations across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), said in Beijing Friday that cross-Straits talks must be held based on the One-China Principle.The orally expressed consensus between ARATS and the Straits Exchange Foundation of Taiwan should be safeguarded as the starting-point for the two sides to contact each other, he noted. Li made these remarks at a forum on cross-Straits ties sponsored by the Hong Kong-based Wen Wei Po newspaper and attended by scholars from both sides of the Straits. Li spoke against any attempt to abandon the principle, and stressed that talks without the principle as the basis could result in the permanent separation of China, and the birth of two countries. The Taiwan authorities, if they are as sincere as they were when the two bodies were meeting in 1992, should clearly deny the "two-state theory," both orally and practically, Li emphasized. |
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