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Mainland spokesperson comments on cross-Strait status quo

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2015-04-11 11:52Xinhua Editor: Gu Liping

A mainland official on Friday stressed the need to protect the political bedrock, which is to uphold the "1992 consensus" and oppose "Taiwan independence", to ensure the peaceful development of cross-Strait ties.

Ma Xiaoguang, spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, was commenting on remarks by Taiwan opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chair Tsai Ing-wen.

Tsai said Thursday at a meeting that the DPP handled the cross-Strait relationship under the basic principle of maintaining the status quo characterized by peace and stability.

Ma said the cross-Strait ties had developed peacefully and had seen remarkable progresses since 2008, building on the very political foundation of upholding the 1992 consensus and opposing Taiwan independence.

The "one country on each side of the Taiwan Strait", or "Taiwan independence" would destroy the political foundation needed for peaceful development, Ma said.

The 1992 consensus was an agreement reached in 1992 that acknowledged that the Chinese mainland and Taiwan were one and the same China.

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