By Chung Li-hua / Staff reporterAs Taiwanese have unequivocally rejected the “one country, two systems” formula that China has proposed for it, the Chinese government should stop embarrassing itself by harassing Taiwan, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday. The speech “smacks of confrontational thinking and animosity” and was an attempt to belittle “one country, two systems” to stoke anti-China sentiment, he said. The speech was deliberately misleading for portraying peaceful unification between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait — a “shared hope of all Chinese” — as a threat to Taiwan, he added. She has also colluded with “Western anti-China forces” to portray the grand plan of revitalizing the Zhonghua minzu as a challenge to regional security, Ma said. Cross-strait relations will only be brought onto the correct path when China begins to recognize the reality in cross-strait relations and stopping its bullying of Taiwan, it said.

Source: Taipei Times October 11, 2019 15:56 UTC