Reference News Network, March 18 report (text: Ma Hanyan) On the morning of March 18, the Taiwan Affairs Office held a regular press conference. A journalist asked, Kuomintang Chairman Zheng Liwen recently said in an interview that she hopes to come to the mainland from April to June this year to meet with General Secretary Xi Jinping, saying that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party should hold consultations to move cross-strait relations toward peace. What is the response to this?
The spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office, Chen Binghua, responded that peace, development, exchange, and cooperation are the mainstream public opinion in the island. We are willing to strengthen exchanges and interactions at all levels with the Kuomintang, based on the common political foundation of upholding the "1992 Consensus" and opposing "Taiwan independence," to enhance political trust, maintain positive interaction, seek peace for the Taiwan Strait, well-being for compatriots, and rejuvenation for the nation.

Spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office Chen Binghua (photographed by Ma Hanyan)
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