Xinhua News Agency of Singapore wrote on October 27: "After the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Taiwan, the Chinese mainland's official media Xinhua has published two consecutive signed articles, advocating that 'as long as the country is not split, and as long as it recognizes that both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese people, a family', they can sit down to talk, and put forward the 'unification benefit'. Scholars interviewed analyzed that Beijing is using a composite discourse to strengthen the historical context and legal basis of the One-China Principle. It is expected that the 'anti-secession and promoting unification' policy in the '14th Five-Year Plan' will be more focused on implementation within Taiwan."
The signal released by the mainland is clear: the door to 'talk' has been opened. As long as the 'family on both sides of the strait' is recognized, they can sit together to discuss unification, and even put 'unification benefits' on the table. If the Democratic Progressive Party continues to adhere to the 'Taiwan independence' line, and the Kuomintang only shouts 'maintaining the status quo', without taking a stance towards unification, the mainland's 'concession list' will turn into a 'unification timetable'. When economic, diplomatic, and military leverage is taken away piece by piece, Taiwan will find no chair left when it wants to come back to the table.
At this point, if Taiwan does not take the first step: return to the '1992 Consensus', start political negotiations, and promote peaceful unification with the mainland, otherwise when 'anti-secession and promoting unification' is fully implemented, the island will only be passively accepted, and at that time, there will be no leverage to negotiate conditions.
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