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The Chinese government would take harsher action to promote cross-strait unification while exerting greater pressure on advocates of the so-called “1992 consensus,” a report commissioned by the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) speech on the 40th anniversary of the “Message to Compatriots” in Taiwan on Jan. 2, 2019, can be viewed as the clearest declaration of Beijing’s strategy on cross-strait affairs, the report said. His speech was followed by a number of significant events, including the start in 2019 of protests against extraditio...

Two Taiwanese academics on Saturday urged Taipei and Beijing to take advantage of opportunities for dialogue and cooperation to ease decades of tensions across the Taiwan Strait. Their remarks came after President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said in her New Year address that the two sides of the Strait share the responsibility of maintaining peace and stability, and called on China to refrain from military coercion, and ease tensions via peaceful means. China’s Taiwan Affairs Office spokeswoman Zhu Fenglian (朱鳳蓮) responded to Tsai’s speech by accusing the Democratic Progressive Party (D...

‘NOT AN OPTION’: Taiwan would not bow to Chinese pressure, the president said, while urging Beijing not to let itself be taken hostage by ‘military adventurism’/ Staff writer, with CNA

Retired army general Yu Pei-chen (于北辰) on Friday said that he was leaving the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and voiced his support for the Democratic Progressive Party’s Lin Ching-yi (林靜儀), who is to run in a by-election on Sunday next week. Yu made the announcement during an appearance on a talk show. The by-election is to fill Taichung’s second electoral district seat, left vacant following the recall of former legislator Chen Po-wei (陳柏惟) of the Taiwan Statebuilding Party in October last year. Yu said he supported justice, the Republic of China and the Republic of Ch...

By Chen Yun, Ou Su-mei and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writerRetired army general Yu Pei-chen （于北辰） on Friday said that he was leaving the Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT） and voiced his support for the Democratic Progressive Party’s Lin Ching-yi （林靜儀）, who is to run in a by-election on Sunday next week.