DPP stands in way of cross-Straits exchanges

The meeting between Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and visiting Hsia Li-yan, vice-chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang party, in Beijing on Friday has undoubtedly provided the two sides with a valuable opportunity to promote exchanges and cooperation.

That Hsia also met with Song Tao, head of both the Taiwan Work Office of the CPC Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, before that meeting shows that the mainland attaches great importance to the KMT delegation's visit, and the CPC's hope that exchanges between the two parties can be further enhanced at various levels to uphold the 1992 Consensus, which embodies the one-China principle, and oppose "Taiwan independence".

The hospitality and sincerity the KMT delegation has been greeted with during its visit should serve to awaken the Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen and the secessionist-minded Democratic Progressive Party of the island to the mainland's consistent stance that the one-China principle is the political foundation for any form of exchanges across the Straits.