A top Chinese official told a senior Taiwan opposition figure on Feb. 10 that both China’s Communist Party (CCP) and Taiwan’s friendly opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT) should oppose “Taiwan independence” and “interference by external forces.”
Wang Huning, the CCP’s fourth ranked leader, told Andrew Hsia, Taiwan’s opposition KMT’s deputy chairman, during a meeting in Beijing that both parties should “maintain peace in the Taiwan Strait,” China’s state television reported. This statement is in the face of consistent aggression and threats of take over by the CCP toward the self-governed liberal democratic Chinese island.
