Xinhua, The Chinese mainland is ready to talk about everything, even its “missile” issue, with Taiwan, but only under the one-China principle, Wang Zaixi, deputy-director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Central Committee, said in Beijing Tuesday at a press conference.
The possibility to talk about the issue has been underscored by the press communique issued last week by the CPC and the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) Party during KMT Chairman Lien Chan's visit to the mainland.
Under the one-China principle, the two sides can take the priority to discuss on the ending of hostility across the Taiwan Straits, the press communique says.
On the issues of military mutual trust across the Straits and Taiwan's purchase of foreign weapons, Wang said that the mainland has been persistent in its stance since the 1980s that the Taiwan issue should be resolved peacefully through consultation under theone-China principle.
Thus the mainland is “not in favor of the massive-scale purchase of advanced weaponry by Taiwan, because it is detrimentalto the peaceful reunification and economic development of Taiwan,”he said.
The mainland has noticed that Taiwan's motion in 2004 to purchase more than 600 billion NT dollars of weapons from the United States has been opposed to by the majority of Taiwan compatriots, Wang said.
