Core Tip: Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou said in an interview, “I used the name of the party or his President (Hu Jintao), general secretary of the name with the participation of these issues we will come to think carefully about the most important thing is that the platform will not affect functions. ”
China news agency, Hong Kong, August 17 – Leader of the Taiwan authorities, designate the Chinese Nationalist Party Chairman Ma Ying-jeou in an exclusive interview with Taiwan media that he will think carefully about, “Mr Ma will be” what the name of the achievement, the most important thing is to not affect between the functions of the platform.
Taiwan’s “Economic Times” published an interview on the 17th, in an interview with Ma Ying-jeou on the KMT platform, open land and capital to come to Taiwan, cross-strait economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) and other issues answered accordingly.
“Mr Ma would” not affect the overall situation of the meeting on behalf of
On the outside of the heat you, “Hu Ma would” issue, Ma Ying-jeou said that the KMT-CPC platform is the 2005 Chairman Lien Chan and Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee on the good, this part of the KMT not only into the 17-wide platform, and now soon will open Add-wide platform 18, this is the established policy, and it is an important cornerstone of cross-strait relations, we will not give up.
He said, “but I hope that in the future between the two sides of the platform into a real forum, not only the KMT, you can talk about the SEF and ARATS have not had the time to talk about the two topics.”
Whether to participate in the future of the KMT platform, Ma Ying-jeou to participate in a matter of fact that is not very critical, he believes that may be able to come up with a way to continue to do so between the platform and continue to do so, “but will not affect our cooperation with each other in good faith . ”
“After more than a year, and now with high-level mainland gradually build up mutual trust, so the platform is absolutely necessary. Therefore, I used the name of the party or his President (Hu Jintao), general secretary of the name with the participation of these issues we will come to good thinking, The most important thing is that the platform will not affect the functionality. ”
Open land and capital to come to Taiwan are feeling our way across the river
Ma Ying-jeou said that the investment restrictions landing the semiconductor industry, Taiwan has always been based on the principles of openness. Before the open wafer八寸TSMC to invest in the mainland has been a full time two years later than in the United States, the consequences of late years, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company as well as in cross-strait status as the leading global semiconductor foundry affected.
“SMIC Semiconductor mainland, if not because we are open late, there is no room for the development of SMIC, I am not in the protection of an enterprise, and sometimes dare not say that the Government can help the busy business, but at least do not become an obstacle to business . ”
As for other industries can not go to investing in mainland China, Ma Ying-jeou said Taiwan does not depend on will have a negative impact, “because there is cooperation between the two sides, but also more and more competitive relationship, it is necessary to consider many factors, in the past to make cross-strait co-operation in Europe the United States money, the future strategy will not only Europe and the United States as an export market, the mainland’s domestic market is the recent diversification of export markets important. ”
“It’s like opening up our land and capital to come to Taiwan policy, and now only 192, we are ‘feeling the stones across the river’, determine the look of our Taiwan will have a negative impact, they say that ‘一头栽into China arms’, and do not have this situation, we are very careful. ”
First half of next year is expected to sign ECFA
A high degree of concern for the world cross-strait economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA), Ma Ying-jeou said in an exclusive interview, the two sides signed ECFA like “co-wrote a book,” first written framework, the opportunity to enter into the first half of next year.
He said, “This is like cross-strait co-wrote a book, we first set the title of the book, they are willing to look at, for example, the name of our ECFA check, if the mainland is willing to use the name.”
Ma Ying-jeou said, ECFA this book must have a considerable amount of content, and the first of several projects which have reached the urgency of the problem is the early harvest (early harvest), the purpose is to deal with pressing issues such as tariff reduction, petrochemical , machinery, auto parts as well as in the textiles will be affected first, these industries have a 18 billion U.S. dollars, a great impact on Taiwan, “such as the petrochemical industry, there are still 5-15 percent tariff, if not signed ECFA, these industries will move to the ASEAN countries to invest in the mainland or the end result is to leave Taiwan, we hope will not happen this phenomenon. ”
Ma Ying-jeou said that this year the possibility to sign ECFA is not high, but the next few months is the key, we can see if a little faster, “because the ASEAN plus one (China) came into effect on January 1 next year, and ASEAN Thailand and Indonesia to sell petrochemical products the mainland, we have to be careful, hoping to speed quickly as possible. because we have not started on time but as soon as possible, is difficult to predict, we do not want to drag too long. “
