Hope continues for positive development

Cross-Straits relations may be affected after the island's new leader takes office in May, Li Yihu, head of Peking University's Taiwan Institute and a deputy to the National People's Congress, said on Wednesday.

Li said decades of peaceful development of cross-Straits relations have been based on the mutual acknowledgment of the 1992 Consensus, which says both Taiwan and the mainland are part of one China.

"If the political foundation was shaken, of course relations would be affected," he said at a news conference on cross-Straits relations organized by the State Council Information Office.