1992 Consensus leaves no room for word games

DURING the latest televised debate for the island's 2016 leadership election, Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, said that the 1992 Consensus, which was built on the one-China principle, was "an option, but not the only option". Eastday.com has criticized Tsai's ambiguous stance and urges her to stop seeking "Taiwan independence":

Thanks to the historic 1992 Consensus, Wang Daohan, then president of the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, and Koo Chen-fu, the chairman of the island's Straits Exchange Foundation, were able to hold a groundbreaking meeting in 1993, the first cross-Straits engagement in over four decades.

The same applies to the 2005 meeting between the leaders of the mainland's Communist Party of China and Taiwan's Kuomintang, the resumption of cross-Straits institutional consultations three years later, even the historic meeting between leaders Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou in Singapore in November.