Taiwan Solidarity Union Chairman Huang Kun-huei (黃昆輝) yesterday said he would file charges today against President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) for endangering national security.
He said he would sue Ma for making up the so-called “1992 consensus” and using it as basis for collaborating with China in an attempt to make Taiwan part of the territory of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Huang said that during cross-strait talks in 1992, when he was the chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, there was no such thing as a “1992 consensus.”
Huang made the remarks after China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) spokesman Yang Yi (楊毅) earlier yesterday expressed approval for Ma’s proposed cross-strait peace accord.
Huang said he suspected that the TAO’s positive response to Ma’s proposal was because there was an under-the-table dialogue between Ma and Beijing.
Huang said this action could be a violation of Article 104 of the Criminal Code, which states: “A person who communicates with a foreign state or its agent with intent to subject territory of the ROC [Republic of China] to such a state or another state shall be punished with death or imprisonment.”
He said China was initially slow to respond to Ma’s peace proposal, which he announced on Monday last week.
However, Huang alleged Beijing officially affirmed Ma’s proposal after the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) sent the director of its Mainland Affairs Department, Kao Huei (高輝), to China.
If Ma and Beijing were engaged in some sort of dialogue, one has to ask what brought about that dialogue, Huang added.
Not only is Ma using the “1992 consensus” to sugarcoat the “one China” principle, he is also using the peace accord to sugarcoat unification talks and trick the Taiwanese public, Huang said.
He also accused the president of using a referendum on the proposed peace talks as a smokescreen to widen the scam.
Meanwhile, KMT spokesperson Lai Su-ju (賴素如), responding to Yang’s positive comment, said Ma’s proposed peace pact aimed to maintain peace across the Taiwan Strait and it was not an issue of unification or independence.
“We believe that people from both sides [of the Taiwan Strait] and Asia-Pacific nations have high hopes for long-term cross-strait peace,” she said.
Lai reiterated Ma’s statement that the government would not sign a peace agreement without a strong domestic consensus and urgent national need, adding that there was no timetable for signing such a pact.
Additional reporting by Mo Yan-chih and AP
Translated by Jake Chung, Staff writer
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