{"id":46557,"date":"2015-04-13T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=46557 "},"modified":"2015-04-13T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T22:24:00","slug":"46557-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=46557","title":{"rendered":"In Dispute Over Name, Taiwan Won\u2019t Join Investment Bank as Founding Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&nbsp;April 14, 2015<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Taiwan will not join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a founding member, a Chinese official signaled on Monday, as a disagreement over what the island would be called has not been resolved.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Taiwan submitted a letter of intent on March 31 to join the institution as a founding member. Although Beijing welcomed Taiwan&#8217;s participation, it said it must do so under an &#8220;appropriate name,&#8221; indicating that disagreements over the contentious issue of Taiwan&#8217;s sovereignty were likely.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Prime Minister Mao Chi-kuo said Taiwan &#8220;would rather not participate&#8221; in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank if it could not join with &#8220;dignity&#8221; and &#8220;equality.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;Recently, we&#8217;ve taken note of the Taiwan side&#8217;s views towards participation, name and other questions,&#8221; Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for China&#8217;s Taiwan Affairs Office, said in a written statement on Monday. &#8220;We are willing to continue listening to all parties&#8217; opinions and properly resolve the questions regarding Taiwan&#8217;s participation in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The statement confirmed a report in the Chinese state news media that Taiwan would not join the bank as a founding member, but said that it could still join as an ordinary member.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Taiwan and China split after the end of China&#8217;s civil war in 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek&#8217;s Nationalist forces fled to the island. China considers the self-ruled island as part of its territory, and it has not ruled out the use of force to prevent Taiwan&#8217;s formal independence. China has used its clout to limit Taiwan&#8217;s participation in international organizations, often forcing it to use names that imply Chinese sovereignty, such as &#8220;Chinese Taipei,&#8221; under which Taiwan participates in the Olympic Games and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Taiwan officials had said &#8220;Chinese Taipei&#8221; was acceptable for its membership in the bank. Beijing has not said what name it wanted Taiwan to use in the organization.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/cn.nytimes.com\/asia-pacific\/20150414\/c14taiwan\/en-us\/\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;&amp;#8220;Recently, we&amp;#8217;ve taken note of the Taiwan side&amp;#8217;s views towards participation, name and other questions,&amp;#8221; Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for China&amp;#8217;s Taiwan Affairs Office, said in a written statement on Monday. &amp;#8220;We are willing to continue listening to all parties&amp;#8217; opinions and properly resolve the questions regarding Taiwan&amp;#8217;s participation in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.&amp;#8221;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}