Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Frank Hsieh's (謝長廷) campaign team yesterday urged the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to drop its "one China market" plan.
Producing a copy of an editorial from the Economic Daily News dated Sept. 1 last year, Hsieh spokesman Shen Fa-hui (沈發惠) said that the writer, Ma Kai (馬凱), is an economic adviser to Ma's campaign team. He argued in the editorial that under the framework of a common market, it is impossible to block Chinese laborers from entering the local market.
"If the arrival of [Chinese] laborers is inevitable under the policy, they must consider renouncing the common market platform," Shen said.
Hsieh spokesman Cheng Wen-tsang (
"They are not selling fruit. They are selling out Taiwan's agriculture," he said. "We condemn such an act and urge the KMT to immediately stop agricultural cooperation with China."
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She said that Taiwan had invested more than NT$109 billion (US$3.5 billion) in China's experimental parks for cross-strait agricultural cooperation, while only NT$259 million in Taiwanese agricultural produce was exported to China as of 2006.
To drum up more criticism of the "cross-strait common market" plan, five DPP-ruled local governments held a press conference at Hsieh's campaign office yesterday morning.
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Pingtung County Commissioner Tsao Chih-hung (
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In related news, former president Lee Teng-hui (
Lee said businesspeople came here to do business and it would be best if everyone all got along with each other.
Lee made the remarks in Taipei County when asked about recent disputes over the "one China market."
Meanwhile, Council of Agriculture Minister Su Jia-chyuan (
Su said that his ministry approved a compensation program on Jan. 3 to ensure farmers covered by the farmer's insurance program receive subsidies when the national annuity program goes into effect on Oct. 1.
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