Xia Liyan (middle), vice chairman of the Kuomintang, departs for China today and will meet Song Tao, the new director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, tomorrow.

(Photographed by reporter Yao Jiexiu)

[Reporter Chen Yufu/Taipei Report] KMT Vice Chairman Xia Liyan departed for China this afternoon (8th) and is scheduled to meet Song Tao, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, in Beijing tomorrow.

The MAC emphasized tonight that when political parties go to China for exchanges, they should safeguard Taiwan's dignity and best interests, reflect to China the mainstream public opinion in Taiwan's insistence on maintaining peace and a democratic system across the Taiwan Strait, and oppose the negative actions of coercing Taiwan to accept the CCP's political framework by force. .

The MAC stated that Chinese people should uphold reciprocal dignity when engaging in cross-strait exchanges, abide by government policies and relevant laws and regulations, and must not negotiate matters involving public power without authorization, and avoid the possible risk of falling into the division of the united front.

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The MAC emphasized that it calls on the Beijing authorities to face up to the fact that the two sides of the strait are not affiliated with each other and the status quo in the Taiwan Strait, handle cross-strait affairs through pragmatic communication, and abandon the intention of dividing and manipulating and dwarfing Taiwan in the gradual and orderly exchanges after the epidemic. One-sidedly set up any political prerequisites and final arrangements that lack the basis of public opinion and are unacceptable to the people of Taiwan.