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发帖数: 5601 | 3 Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen, says Beijing cannot impose conditions on a
democratic country.
By Lally Weymouth July 21 at 10:31 AM
Lally Weymouth is a senior associate editor at The Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2016/07/21/44b0a1a4-4e25-11e6-a422-
83ab49ed5e6a_story.html
Although China and Taiwan have been able to paper over their differences to
date, tensions have been mounting since Tsai's inauguration, when she did
not restate the so-called '92 consensus, in which Taipei and Beijing agreed
that they are part of "One China" - but with different interpretations.
This week, The Washington Post's Lally Weymouth visited Tsai's office for
the president's first interview since taking office. Edited excerpts follow:
Q: Some academics say Xi has a certain deadline by which he wants you to
agree to the '92 consensus. Is that right?
A: It isn't likely that the government of Taiwan will accept a deadline for
conditions that are against the will of the people.
Q: It doesn't seem that way. I think it was China's Taiwan Affairs Office,
part of the State Council, which said that your speech was "an incomplete
exam." There is no public indication that they appreciated your position.
Are you, the president, in touch with your counterparts in the Chinese
government?
A: Different levels of the government have different ways of communicating
with their counterparts in China. At this stage, I cannot go into too much
detail.
Q: Is it fair that Washington has considered Taiwan an entity, not a country
, since 1979, when the United States changed sides and recognized the People
's Republic of China (with its capital in Beijing) - in lieu of the Republic
of China in Taiwan (with its capital in Taipei) - as China?
A: I am not clear what the U.S. means when they use the term "entity." For
us here in Taiwan, we believe that we are a country, a democratic country.
Q: So you think as far as your alliances go, they will stay as they are
today?
A: We will do everything we can do to maintain those relations and make sure
that our diplomatic allies feel that having diplomatic relations with
Taiwan is worthwhile.
Q: I saw that you expressed disappointment over the ruling by the Permanent
Court of Arbitration in The Hague on the South China Sea. It held that
Taiping Island, which you claim as part of Taiwan, is a rock, not an island,
and thus cannot enjoy an exclusive economic zone. Will you abide by the
ruling?
A: We will not accept their decision. There are a couple of reasons for that
. Taiwan is an important interested party in this case, but we were not
invited to participate in the proceedings. Secondly, we found it
unacceptable that we were referred to as the Taiwan Authority of China. The
third reason is that [Taiping Island really is] an island. |
