h; it can be denied anytime to suit one's purpose –– that enabled C.F. Koo, SEF chairman, to meet his Chinese opposite number Wang Daohan twice to settle a few outstanding issues across the Strait. Wang was chairman of the Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait.
Under the unsigned agreement, both Beijing and Taipei acknowledge there is but one China whose definition can be orally and individually expressed. It's a modus vivendi.
Beijing stresses the "one China" principle without its "different interpretation" corollary. The Kuomintang insists Taiwan has the right to interpret that one China as the Republic of China.
Hu Jintao's "one China" is the People's Republic of China, of course.
Lai had to meet the press twice in a row after Ma Ying-jeou, the president-elect, came under fire from within his own Kuomintang for having his premier-designate Liu Chao-shiuan name her as the new MAC chief.
With or without explanation, Lai could hardly convince anyone that she isn't going to be Ma's loyal supporter. Ma had her appointed as a counterbalance to P.K. Chiang and to slow down the new Beijing bandwagon on which Kuomintang leaders are jumping.
Aside from her formal announcement of proselytism, Lai turned the news conference in front of the official residence of the mayor of Taipei into a one-woman election campaign debate.
