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Taiwan's Nationalists Move to Reassure China
2000-11-26
Taipei - Wu Poh-hsiung, deputy chairman of Taiwan's Nationalist Party, reassured Chinese officials that the island won't declare independence and criticized mainland threats to use force to bring about reunification, the China Post reported, citing Wu. Wu has been visiting top Chinese Communist Party officials in the highest-level visit to the mainland by a Nationalist official in about five decades. He told Chinese officials that Taiwan's constitution and its political realities mean China shouldn't worry about Taiwan trying to seek independence, the papers said. Wu said there are differences between the two sides, though he said these could be resolved through negotiations. Chen Shui-bian, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party, became president in May, ending more than 50 years of Nationalist Party rule in Taiwan. China has since been courting the Nationalists -- who fought a bitter civil war for control of China in the 1930s and 1940s -- amid concerns that Chen's DPP will declare Taiwan independent.
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