What a move! Mr. Hu congratulates Mr. Ma to his non-contested election as Kuomintang chairman. How cool that this happens just at the right time to have some teasers for the beginning of the US-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue that started today, July 27, 2009, in Washington DC. This was also the reason why I could not take the tunnel under 14th street from the Reagan Building to the Hoover Building (Commerce Dept).
The election could reinforce Ma's consiliatory approach to the PRC within the KMT. Additionally, many in the PRC assume that - since PRC does not accept Ma's title as president of Taiwan - that only this election to party chairman allows him the posture to get invited to the mainland. However, a re-approchement takes time and probably both sides are not yet ready for too much schmoozing. For this, there is not enough trust, and too much fear on the island.
Maybe, a real trust building measure would not just be a telegram from Beijing, but the (partial) scrapping or reduction of its missiles targetting Formosa?
At least: nice words are better than the ugly words a few years back!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/world/asia/28taiwan.html?ref=world
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