{"id":50796,"date":"2015-11-04T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=50796 "},"modified":"2015-11-04T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:04:00","slug":"50796-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=50796","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Opposition in Uproar Over Surprise Presidential Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A pro-independence activist displays a sign protesting plans for a meeting between Ma Ying-jeou and Xi Jinping while being arrested by police in Taipei, Nov. 4, 2015.<\/div>
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Plans for an unprecedented meeting between the presidents of China and Taiwan sparked protests outside Taipei’s parliament, the Legislative Yuan, on Wednesday.<\/div>
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Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Singapore on Saturday, in the first high-level meeting across the Taiwan Straits since the end of the civil war in 1949.<\/div>
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Protesters said they are worried about the effect closer ties with China’s ruling Communist Party, once Taiwan’s sworn enemy, could have on the island’s democratic way of life.<\/div>
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Ma will meet Xi, whose government regards Taiwan as a breakaway province awaiting reunification under Beijing’s rule, just three months before he steps down as president at the end of a second term, and amid growing popular support for the pro-independence opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).<\/div>
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“Beijing’s move will affect the coming presidential election, as well as being a shot at Taiwan’s democracy,” Soochow University political analyst Hsu Yung-ming told reporters on Wednesday.<\/div>
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Meanwhile, DPP chairwoman and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen, said she was “very surprised” to hear about the presidential meeting.<\/div>
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“To turn the matter of cross-straits relations into a political maneuver will have a negative effect on the future of cross-straits relations in the long term,” Tsai told reporters.<\/div>
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“Nor will it receive the recognition and acceptance of the people of Taiwan.”<\/div>
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“I wish to remind President Ma in the gravest terms that cross-straits relations should be free of partisan politics, and particularly considerations of the interests of a particular party,” she said.<\/div>
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“Taiwan’s future shouldn’t be used for electioneering.”<\/div>
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Her party issued a statement hitting out at Ma’s decision for being anti-democratic.<\/div>
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“President Ma has stated in the past that if a Ma-Xi meeting were to occur, it must be conducted under the conditions of ‘national necessity, popular support, and legislative oversight,'” the DPP said in a statement.<\/div>
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“Ma’s decision … is unacceptable to the Taiwanese people.”<\/div>
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It said the decision was in keeping with Ma’s “long record of opaque decision-making,” and ran “counter to democratic principles.”<\/div>
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Ma and Xi will “exchange views on cross-straits issues,” according to presidential spokesman Charles Chen, with a view to “securing cross-straits peace.”<\/div>
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“No agreement will be signed, nor any joint statement released,” Chen said in a statement.<\/div>
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Growing public backlash<\/div>
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