It takes an expert: “CCP making dialogue difficult: expert” (Taipei Times, May 16, 2024).
We’re all amateurs here at STC, except maybe James Roth; still, we’ve managed to figure out that the Chinese Communist Party is always making all sorts of things difficult, including in the arena of diplomacy or pseudo-diplomacy.
The Taipei Times says:
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is setting political thresholds that would hinder, if not make impossible, efforts by incoming president William Lai’s administration to initiate dialogue with China, experts said yesterday.
Citing comments by China’s Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Chen Binhua, Taiwan Thinktank researcher Wu Se-chih said that the CCP was asking the impossible by demanding that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) set aside its Taiwanese independence stance.
Commenting on Lai’s inaugural address on Monday next week, Chen said that any Taiwanese party willing to recognize Beijing’s “one China” principle would face “no difficulties” when interacting with the CCP, adding that cross-strait dialogue is only possible if the DPP abandons its Taiwanese independence stance.
Taiwanese independence cannot coexist with cross-strait peace, Chen said, adding that Beijing is adamant that Taiwan observe the “one China” principle and the so-called “1992 consensus” to promote peaceful cross-strait relations with the ultimate aim of unification….
Wu said that the CCP’s demands were tailored to make it difficult for the DPP, and that China could very well demand that the KMT give up its claims that the Republic of China (ROC) is a sovereign state.
China “could very well demand” as it has constantly demanded that political parties in Taiwan accept the mainland’s view of things and surrender an already independent country to the People’s Republic of China?
As any expert knows, “more of the same” is often a solid prediction. William Lai is probably also hip to this heuristic.
Also see:
StopTheChinazis.org: “China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy and Its Near Relations”
