The long-stalled
relations across the Taiwan Strait has finally seen a thaw, with Beijing
agreeing to a planned groundbreaking visit to mainland China by Taiwan's top
negotiator in mid-October.
The
Beijing-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) sent
a letter to its Taiwan
counterpart on Tuesday that C. F. Koo, chairman of the Straits Exchange
Foundation (SEF) is welcome to visit Beijing
and Shanghai
from Oct. 14 to Oct. 19.
Koo and Wang met
for the first time in Singapore
in April 1993 to lay a framework for regular SEF-ARATS dialogue. The second
Koo-Wang meeting was originally scheduled for mid-1995. However, Beijing unilaterally suspended the meeting as well as
all other SEF-ARATS exchanges in retaliation for President Lee's visit to the
United States
in June 1995. Beijing considered Lee's US visit as a move to promote Taiwan
independence.(CNA, Sep. 15, 1998)
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Koo-Wang Meeting and Cross-strait Relations, Mainland Affairs Council
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Beijing Sent Team to Explain Beijing's Views on Taiwan (Straits Times, Jan. 17,
1999)
Chinese
Official Meets with Taiwan
Counterpart (AFP,
Jan.15, 1999)
Wang
Daohan Confirms His Visit to Taiwan
This Year
(CNA, Jan. 9, 1999)
Beijing Concludes
Report on Koo-Jiang Meeting (CNA, Nov. 9, 1998)
Taiwanese
Find Beijing
Tougher Than Expected (Reuters, Oct. 30, 1998)
Top
Mainland Envoy May Visit Taiwan
Next March
(CNA, Oct. 26, 1998)
Premier
Says Cross-Strait Relations Entering New Stage (CNA, Oct. 22, 1998)
Dialogue
with China Should be
Continued: Taiwan
President
(CNA, Oct. 21, 1998)
Taiwan Wants
Constructive, Not Political Talks (Reuters, Oct. 20, 1998)
China, Taiwan Shipping Links Expand to Shanghai (Reuters, Oct. 20, 1998)
Taiwan Welcomes
Talks But Says China
Ignoring Separate
State Reality (AFP, Oct. 19, 1998)
China and Taiwan
Agree to Keep Their Discussion Going (New York Times, Oct. 19, 1998)
China, Taiwan Break
Ice, But Road Ahead Bumpy (Reuters, Oct. 19, 1998) "
Koo-Jiang
Meeting Signals New Era in Cross-Strait Ties--No breakthroughs, but frozen
talks back on
(Reuters, Oct. 18, 1998)
Koo
Says Mainland's Democratization is Key to Reunification (CNA, Oct. 18, 1998)
Reunification
Must Be Separated from Democracy: Beijing
Tells Taipei (AFP, Oct. 18, 1998)
No
Deal in China-Taiwan Talks (AP, Oct. 18, 1998)
Taiwan-China
Talks Produce Optimism (AP, Oct. 17, 1998)
Taiwan Envoy
Lectures China
on Democracy
(Reuters, Oct. 17, 1998)
Still
No Formal Taiwan-China Talk (AP, Oct. 16, 1998)
US
Invisible Partner in Landmark China-Taiwan Talks (AFP, Oct. 16, 1998)
Taiwan's Top
Negotiator Hails Thawing Ties with China (AFP, Oct. 16, 1998)
Taiwan Envoy in Beijing for Landmark
Talks (Reuters,
Oct. 16, 1998)
Optimism,
Differences Mark Day Two of Koo-Wang Talks (AFP, Oct. 15, 1998)
Cordial
Atmosphere Surrounds Dialogue - But is Political Breakthrough in Sight? (BBC, Oct. 15, 1998)
ARATS
Deputy: Koo, Wang Reach Four-Point Consensus (CNA, Oct. 15, 1998)
Koo
Calls for Solution of Urgent Problems (CNA, Oct. 14, 1998)
Ahead
of Landmark Meeting, China Insists Force Could Still Be Used
Against Taiwan (AFP, Oct. 13, 1998)
European
Parliamentarian Urges Taipei-Beijing Rapprochement (CNA, Oct. 12, 1998)
China, Taiwan in
Highest Level Contact in 50 Years (Reuters, Oct. 11, 1998)
AIT
Chief Spells Out US
Expectations for Koo-Wang Talks (CNA, Oct. 9, 1998)
Taiwan Reiterates
Commitment to Reunification But Says Will Not Negotiate Away Democracy or
Freedom
(Reuters, Oct. 9, 1998)
China Rules Out
Federation with Taiwan (Reuters, Oct. 8, 1998)
Three
Targets Cited for Koo-Wang Meeting (CNA, Oct. 4, 1998)
Taiwan Cancels
Planned Military Maneuvers in Show of Friendliness to Rival China (AFP, Oct. 1, 1998)
US
Welcomes Cross-Strait Dialogues (CNA, Sep. 26, 1998)
China Pressures Taiwan to
Discuss Unity
(Reuters, Sep. 23, 1998)
Harvey J.
Feldman, America's Response to the China-Taiwan Talks: Encourage But Don't
Interfere (The Heritage Foundation, Backgrounder Executive
Summary, No. 1230, Oct. 28, 1998)
Analysis-Tea
and Opera Seal Taiwan-China Ties (Reuters, Oct. 18, 1998)
No
Easy Solution to Cross-Strait Impasse (Reuters, Oct. 15, 1998)
China, Taiwan
Tensions Remain High (Reuters, Oct. 13, 1998)
Ralph A. Cossa, Koo-Wang Talks: Can the "Use of Force"
Dispute be Resolved? (Pacific Forum CSIS, PacNet #39, October 9,
1998)
Paul S. P. Hsu, Taiwan-Mainland China Relations: From Negative Isolation to Positive
Transformation-An Episode of History in the 21st Century (Sep.
1998)
Democracy,
Taiwan-China Stumbling Block (Reuters, Oct. 11, 1998)
Yu-Shan Wu, Moving Towards the Center: Taiwan's Public Opinion and
Mainland Policy in Shift (Oct. 1998)
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