Former KMT Chairwoman Calls for Cross-Strait Dialogue to End 'Cold Peace'

No more ‘cold peace’ across Taiwan Strait: former KMT chairwoman calls to rebuild trust

The former chairwoman of Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), has called for cross-strait dialogue to break the state of “cold peace”, rebuild trust and avoid conflict. “The key to cross-strait relations lies not in radical confrontation, but in profound mutual trust,” Hung Hsiu-chu wrote on a popular mainland online platform on Thursday. She also called for a return to the 1992 consensus, an unofficial agreement between Beijing and the then-ruling KMT in Taiwan. It states th...

By Phoebe Zhang