TAIPEI – Upon his return to Taipei from a landmark visit to China in April, former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou declared: “The 1992 consensus has been brought back to life.” Read more at straitstimes.com.
former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou declared: “The 1992 consensus has been brought back to life.”
In the end, Taipei asserted that the two sides had different interpretations of what “one China” meant while Beijing said the political meaning of “one China” would not be involved in routine cross-strait consultations. This agreement to paper over differences was later known as the 1992 consensus.
Citing Ms Tsai’s failure to endorse the concept of a single Chinese nation, Beijing cut off all official lines of communication with Taiwan a month later. Beijing since 2016 has increasingly put pressure on Taiwan to acknowledge the 1992 consensus and come to the negotiation table – it has squeezed Taiwan’s international space, increased incursions into Taiwan’s air defence zone, breached the median line more frequently and conducted massive exercises around the island among other things.
However, with Ms Tsai and the DPP strongly opposed to the consensus, the KMT will have to return to power for the two sides to go back to it as a basis for conducting ties.Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang draws line on Taiwan, says Beijing not inflaming Ukraine situationIn the meantime, Mr Ma has received flak back home for his airing of the 1992 consensus as a basis for engagement between the two sides during his trip.
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