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Reporter Chen Zhengyu / Taipei Report
On November 7, 2015, former President Ma Ying-jeou and Communist Party of China leader Xi Jinping went to Singapore to meet and shake hands for 81 seconds. Five years later, Ma Ying-jeou attended the fifth anniversary of the Ma Ying-jeou Foundation Horse Xi’an Club (7) today. At the seminar, he recalled that Xi Jinping asked, “Is your presidential palace the governor’s palace from the era of Japanese occupation?” Ma Ying-jeou then laughed at the audience: “Isn’t Xi Jinping the big news? of the presidential palace? “
▲ Xi Jinping asked Ma Ying-jeou that year: “Is your presidential palace the governor’s palace from the era of Japanese occupation?” (Photo / provided by the presidential palace)
Today is the 5th anniversary of “Xihui Ecuestre”, and the CCP and the Equestrian Club hold relevant seminars. When Ma Ying-jeou attended today’s seminar, she shared that she talked about the history of the Anti-Japanese War and mentioned that our country’s Presidential Palace was bombed, and even the escape tunnel was bombed. Xi Jinping asked, “Is your Presidential Palace the Palace of the Governor General during the Japanese occupation?” In response to the three words “Presidential Palace” that Xi Jinping blurted out, Ma Ying-jeou smiled and asked the audience, “Isn’t that great news?”
Ma Ying-jeou noted that when he met with Xi Jinping that year, he reached a consensus to notify the United States of the matter; therefore, the Chinese government was appointed by the Chinese ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai, and our representative, Shen Lu, who was in the United States, and at the same time gave notice on November 2. Susan Thornton, Assistant Secretary of State for Asia Pacific Affairs at the US Department of State This move made the United States very happy, because the United States also benefits from improved relations between Taiwan and China.
▲ Ma Ying-jeou emphasized that the “1992 consensus” and “one country, two systems” are fundamentally two different things and cannot be equated. (Photo by reporter Chen Zhengyu)
Furthermore, Ma Ying-jeou especially stated today that although Xi Jinping’s statements on “Consensus 92” in early 2019 caused misunderstandings in Taiwan, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of China on January 16 last year and the overseas edition of the People’s Daily on August 26 this year were fine. All of this has been cleared up. The “92 consensus questions and answers” recently issued by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council also fully demonstrated the recommendations made by the SEF in a letter faxed to ARATS on November 3, 1992: “In the process of joint efforts across the straits to seek national reunification, Although both sides adhere to the one-China principle, they have different perceptions of what one China means. “
Ma Ying-jeou emphasized that in response to the Strait Foundation’s proposal at the time to “express the different cognitions of the two parties verbally,” the Continental Strait Association called and wrote on November 3 and 16 to express “total respect and acceptance”. This is the original. “92 Consensus”. “Q&A” also noted that the “92 Consensus” is the common political basis for cross-strait relations before reunification, and “One country, two systems” is the continent’s institutional arrangement after reunification. This makes it clear that the “1992 consensus” and “one country, two systems” are fundamentally two different things and cannot be equated.
