Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen calls for stability in relations with China but says she will not accept any terms that would 'downgrade Taiwan.'
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen called for stability in relations with China in her inaugural address Wednesday but said she would not accept Beijing’s political terms that would “downgrade Taiwan and undermine the cross-strait status quo.”late last year, Tsai said relations with Beijing had reached a “historical turning point” and that “peace, parity, democracy and dialogue” should form the basis for contacts between the sides as a means to prevent intensifying antagonisms and differences.
Tsai said Taiwan would also work to increase its participation in international society, even as Beijing seeks to shut it out and poach allies away from the self-governing island democracy it claims as its own territory. “We will not accept the Beijing authorities’ use of ‘one country, two systems’ to downgrade Taiwan and undermine the cross-strait status quo,” Tsai told an audience at the baroque Taipei Guest House in the center of the capital.“One country, two systems” is the formula under which Hong Kong was given a significant measure of autonomy when it reverted to Chinese sovereignty from British rule in 1997.
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