First meeting since Singapore in November 2015, former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP ) Xi Jinping had on Wednesday in Beijing.
The most recent Xi-Mae meeting took place ahead of a conference between Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and American President Joe Biden on Wednesday, US day.  ,
Ma stated at the time of the meeting that the Chinese people could not endure a war to break out in the Taiwan Strait. He stated that he thinks that leaders on both sides have the right to maintain a calm and secure environment in the area for economic growth.
There is nothing on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, according to Xi, and there is no power that is unique them.  ,
” People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait yearn for harmony in their properties and harmonious interaction with their people,” said Xi. ” To this conclusion, we must encourage the quiet development of cross- Atlantic relations”.
We can sit down and talk to each other as long as the country is n’t divided and we know that one family on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is Chinese, he said.
He added that the cross-Strait relationships connection must be based on the” 1992 Consensus” process.
The 1992 Consensus was achieved in a meeting between the semi- official representatives of the CCP- led People’s Republic of China ( PRC ) of mainland China and Kuomintang ( KMT )- led Republic of China ( ROC ) of Taiwan.  ,
According to the CCP, the 1992 Consensus signifies that “one China” exists on both flanks of the Taiwan Strait, which is only represented by the PRC. The KMT knowledge of the discussion is “one China, various interpretations”, meaning that China may become interpreted as either PRC or ROC.  ,
The Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ), the ruling party of Taiwan, has never acknowledged the 1992 Consensus. Lai Ching-te, the DPP’s president, won the island’s election for president on January 13 and will succeed Tsai Ing-wen as Taiwan’s new president on May 20.  ,
KMT’s approach
Taiwan is always win a war against China, according to Ma in an appointment with Germany’s DW on January 8.  ,
He said that, in combination- sea connections, he trusted Xi, who he insisted harbored no plan to enter the area. He added that Taiwan may refrain from raising defense-related costs because it would stifle China.
Following those January remarks by Ma, Hou You- ih, next the KMT’s political candidate, said he had different views than Ma. He said he did not place unrealistic expectations on “one state, two techniques”.
Major KMT leaders have thrown their minds about Ma’s most recent trip to China. Eric Chu, the head of KMT, apparently took time off for a family vacation in the US starting in late March.  ,
The Party expresses its gratitude to Ma for his visit to Beijing and wishes for its achievement at a conference of the group’s standing committee on March 27. KMT Vice Chairman Andrew Hsia chaired a meeting of the party’s on-going committee on March 27.
Hsia is currently leading a KMT committee to Washington this week to meet with US lawmakers and believe tanks. On April 8, he met with some officers in the US State Department.  ,
” Ma’s China trip is not only a great social event, but also a battle of ideas and positions”, a Zhejiang- based journalist using the pen brand” Xia Jie” says in an article posted on Wednesday. Different circumstances may arise in Taiwan as a result of how the DPP and KMT may respond to Ma’s” journey of serenity.”
Eric Chu had a cordial political attitude toward mainland China in the past. But in recent years, he has evidently shown his attitude of getting closer to the US and staying away from the mainland”, a Hubei- based author called” Dabaihua” says in an essay. It appears that Chu wants to avoid making a secret trip to Taiwan in order to avoid making comments on Ma’s China journey.
The author says Chu has also faced severe condemnation within his group after he closed the KMT’s Huang Fuxing tree, or the National Veterans Committee, which strongly opposed Taiwan independence, next month.  ,
He claims it’s now necessary for Beijing to send a message that it has made every effort to achieve peaceful reunification and wo n’t allow anyone to break Taiwan from China.  ,
Hong Kong commentator from Taiwan Yau Ching- Yuen claims on his YouTube channel that Beijing may have overestimated Ma’s influence on Taiwanese politics.
According to Yau, according to a recent survey by the National Chengchi University, only 2.4 % of Taiwanes identify as Chinese. He says most Taiwanese oppose Beijing’s “one country, two systems” approach after seeing its failure in Hong Kong.
‘ Useful idiot ‘
Ma was nicknamed” Mr. Ma” by Xi during his most recent trip to China, without any official title. In return, he called Xi “general secretary” and” Mr Xi”.
Prior to this meeting, Ma led a group of young Taiwanese people to visit Guangdong, Shaanxi and Beijing on April 1- 9. He visited China’s anti- Japan war museum in Beijing on Monday.  ,
Ma is described as a “useful idiot” in remarks made on Tuesday by Yu Tsung- chi, a retired major general in Taiwan and dean of Fu Hsing Kang College at the National Defense University. Yu believes that Beijing is using Ma to stir up anti-Japan sentiment and support Taiwan’s unification.
Yu claims that Beijing intends to erode Taiwan’s relationship with Japan and the US by using people’s memories of the KMT’s eight-year resistance against Japan in 1937-1945.
Whether or not the “idiot” charge is deserved, Ma made a careless mistake during his latest meeting with Xi, according to Taiwanese media.  ,
Ma’s initial statement in his opening speech stated that” the Chinese nation ( Zhonghua Minzu )” had endured a century of humiliation in the past but is now heading for the direction of revitalization.  ,
However, he incorrectly referred to the situation as” the ROC ( Zhonghua Minguo ), a term that CCP leaders did not anticipate or want to hear during the meeting. He corrected himself immediately.
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