I'm in Song Bo, a room of the Grand Hotel in Taipei used today until November 6 at the press room.
Surrounded by journalists mostly Asian, my presence here is motivated by an event that Taiwan is safe historic significance: the Second Meeting between the SEF ( Strait Exchange Foundation) and the ARATS ( Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits ), bodies created for economic and political management of the affairs of the Taiwan Strait, and belonging respectively to Taiwan and mainland China .
The historicity of the encounter comes from the fact that Chen Yunlin , dell'ARATS the President, who arrived in late morning Taoyuan airport for a flight with Air China, is to all intents and purposes the most important representative of the Government of Beijing to have made an official visit on Taiwanese soil.
Its counterpart, SEF Chairman Chiang Ping-kung welcomed him with open arms, including applause and photographs under the rain this morning did not stop to get off the city.
supporters of the party "green" the Democratic Progressive Party (PDP) , the Government from 2000 to 2008 and now in opposition, but have a different view: they have organized protests throughout the route that leads from Grand Hotel and are besieging the gates of the latter with shouting, banners and posters extolling the independence of Taiwan.
The new president Ma Ying-jeou now in its sixth month in office, has asked the public yesterday the maximum restraint to prevent the recurrence of unpleasant situations: October 21, in fact, the vice president dell'ARATS, Zhang Mingqing visiting Tainan , a stronghold of the PDP in the South Island, was attacked and thrown to the ground by a small crowd of protesters (including a municipal councilor of Tainan), before being carried to safety by local police.
addition, on October 25 in Taipei was organized by the DPP one of the biggest protests ever experienced from the island: After learning the news of Chen Yunlin, over half a million of people have marched through the streets of the capital, against China, against President Ma and in favor of Taiwan independence. The current difficulties of
But, faced with opposition party supporters, come from one side of the difficult international situation that is developing in knee economies around the world, and secondly by its willingness to establish good relations with China's number one opponent of the PDP , moreover, in conjunction with the unpleasant episode of contaminated milk in China, which has caused many deaths in China and some victims in Taiwan.
Beyond the protests, kept under control but without violence for more than 7000 police officers, the meeting si è svolto nella massima tranquillità, tra due personalità che ebbero già occasione di incontrarsi nel 2005 in Cina, sebbene all'epoca rivestissero ruoli differenti (entrambi rappresentanti dei due rispettivi partiti: il Kuomintang e il Partito Comunista Cinese ).
L'ultimo incontro ufficiale tra Chiang e Chen è avvenuto lo scorso giugno, sempre in territorio continentale e sempre in merito ai nuovi rapporti tra la Cina e una Taiwan a "trazione Kuomintang".
Anche se può sembrare superfluo, è importante affermare che l'esito di questo Secondo Meeting avrà inevitabilmente repercussions in the relations between the two sides of the Strait politically, although both sides have been taken to clarify the purely technical and economic it.
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