August 20, 2017

The Chinese mainland is willing to maintain communication and increase dialogue with the Kuomintang (KMT) party to jointly safeguard peace across the Taiwan Strait, a mainland spokesperson said Sunday.

Wu Den-yih assumed office as chairman of the Taiwan-based KMT party at its twentieth party congress on Sunday, which adopted a new policy platform.

In response to the policy platform that touches on the cross-Strait relations, An Fengshan, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said, "We are willing to uphold the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations as well as the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait with the KMT party on the basis of adhering to the 1992 Consensus, which embodies the one-China principle, and opposing 'Taiwan independence.'"

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