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China's Hu, Taiwan's Chen trade rhetorical barbs
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 02 - 01 - 2007


Chinese President Hu Jintao
called on the "sons and daughters of China" at home and abroad
to resist moves towards Taiwan independence, REUTERS QUOTED state media
as saying on Tuesday.
His comments, in an address to parliament's advisory body,
were part of the annual New Year volleys of rhetoric with
Taiwan, whose President Chen Shui-bian used his address to
reassert Taipei's claim to sovereignty independent of the
mainland.
In his address, Hu also referred to needed internal
Communist Party reforms, fighting corruption and extending
democracy ahead of the 17th Party Congress to be held in the
autumn.
"We should extend democracy and promote harmony within the
party, and consistently improve the party's governance and
develop its advanced nature," Hu said according to the People's
Daily, the party's mouthpiece.
"In the new year, we will uphold the basic principle of
'peaceful reunification' and 'one country, two systems' when
dealing with relations across the Taiwan Strait," Hu added.
"China will never give up our efforts to reunify the
country peacefully, but we will not compromise on Taiwan
independence and splitist activities," he was quoting as
saying.
"So here, I am calling again for the sons and daughters of
China from overseas and home to join hands, and to crack down
together on Taiwan independence and splittist activities," he
told a new year meeting with the Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference (CPPCC), composed mainly of
non-Communist members including celebrities, entrepreneurs and
intellectuals.
Taipei and Beijing have been arch rivals since the end of
the Chinese civil war in 1949, when the defeated Nationalists
took refuge on Taiwan. China says the self-ruled, democratic
island is a breakaway province, and has threatened to attack if
it declares independence.


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