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Taiwan's Tsai strikes conciliatory note, calls for 'positive dialogue' with Beijing

Agence France-Presse • May 20, 2016, 12:17:22 IST
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At swearing-in on Friday, Tiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen called for a positive dialogue with China in the face of an increasingly hostile Beijing.

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Taiwan's Tsai strikes conciliatory note, calls for 'positive dialogue' with Beijing

Taipei:  Taiwan’s new President Tsai Ing-wen called for “positive dialogue” with China in her much-anticipated inauguration speech on Friday, striking a conciliatory tone in the face of an increasingly hostile Beijing. Tsai took office as the island’s first female President after winning a landslide victory in January to defeat the ruling Kuomintang, ending an eight-year rapprochement with Beijing under outgoing President Ma Ying-jeou. Voters felt Ma had moved too close to China, which still sees self-ruling Taiwan as part of its territory awaiting reunification. Beijing-sceptic Tsai swept in with a campaign to restore Taiwanese pride, a message that resonated with a public tired of living in China’s shadow. [caption id=“attachment_2790824” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] ![Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen. Getty Images](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Tsai-post.jpg) Tsai Ing-wen. Getty Images[/caption] However she sought to cast Taiwan as a force for peace in front of a cheering crowd of 20,000 at the presidential palace in Taipei, where she was sworn in earlier on Friday. “The two governing parties across the strait must set aside the baggage of history, and engage in positive dialogue, for the benefit of the people on both sides,” she said. Relations with Beijing have already cooled since she won the presidency with China putting growing pressure on Tsai to back its “one China” message - the bedrock of the thaw under outgoing leader Ma Ying-jeou. Tsai and her Democratic Progressive Party have never recognised the concept. While she showed no sign of backing down from that stance in her speech, Tsai emphasised the importance of cross-strait communication. “Cross-strait relations have become an integral part of building regional peace and collective security,” she said. “In this process, Taiwan will be a ‘staunch guardian of peace’ that actively participates and is never absent.” However, she still emphasised the need for Taiwan to diversify the economy and end its over-reliance on the mainland for trade. She also expressed the island’s commitment to its vibrant democratic culture. “We, as a free and democratic people, are committed to the defence of our freedom and democracy as a way of life…My dear fellow Taiwanese, we did it,” she said. Official mainland Chinese news outlets snubbed the inauguration, while searches for Tsai’s name and “Taiwan” were blocked on social media. In an editorial, the Global Times - a newspaper owned by the People’s Daily group that often takes a nationalistic tone - said Tsai’s assumption of power heralded “a new era for a cross-Straits region that is characterised by uncertainty.”

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