Large portraits of Mao Zedong (毛澤東), Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels hang on the walls of the party's modest offices in a run-down neighborhood in Taipei.
But Lin said it would be a bad idea for any Taiwanese to accept an invitation to the congress.
"This would just incite more protests and ill will from the people here," he said.
"The first step is ending the lingering hostilities from the civil war," Lin said. "Then we can go on."
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