China advocates maintaining dialogue with Taiwan to achieve “peaceful reunification” of the territory

Jan. 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Chinese authorities have advocated this Wednesday for maintaining an “active dialogue” with Taiwanese representatives throughout 2023 in an attempt to achieve the “peaceful reunification” of the territory.

The spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Asian giant’s State Council, Ma Xiaoguang, has indicated in a statement that the Government “will continue to hold exhaustive and in-depth consultations with representatives of all areas of the Taiwanese community.”

Thus, he has specified that he hopes to “continue exchanging positions to stimulate the peaceful development of ties between the parties, especially in the Taiwan Strait”.

Official relations between Beijing and Taipei were suspended in 1949 after the forces of the Chinese nationalist Kuomintang party, led by Chiang Kai Shek, suffered a defeat in the civil war against the Communist Party of China and moved into Taiwan.

Ties between Taiwan and mainland China were re-established only at the business and informal level in the late 1980s, although there has recently been an increase in tension between the parties.