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UMC’s Tsao urges law on peaceful co-existence

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Robert Tsao, one of Taiwan’s powerful business leaders, called on the ruling Democratic Progressive Party and opposition Kuomintang to drop their support of referendums on Taiwan’s admission to the United Nations yesterday.

In a half-page advertisement run in three mass-circulation dailies, the chairman emeritus of United Microelectronics Corporation said he expects the presidential candidates of the two parties to give up their U.N. bids, saying they are an exercise in futility.

The DPP wants accession to the United Nations under the name “Taiwan.” The Kuomintang is striving for a return to the United Nations as the “Republic of China,” and was ousted from the world body in 1971.

Kuomintang standard bearer Ma Ying-jeou and his DPP rival Frank Hsieh should jointly propose a peaceful co-existence law for cross-Taiwan Strait relations instead, Tsao urged.

The UMC is the world’s second-largest contract chipmaker.

Tsao retired as its chairman after being indicted in January last year for making an end run to acquire He-jian Technology in China. He was acquitted on Oct. 26.

Taiwan imposes strict restrictions on investments in China by its entrepreneurs.

“If Taiwan adopts a cross-strait peaceful co-existence law, relations between the two sides of the Strait can begin to develop in the right direction,” said Tsao, who calls himself a “small ordinary citizen” in the front-page advertisement.

The new law alone will provide opportunities for both sides of the Taian Strait to trust and help each other, Tsao said. It will end the dispute over “one China” versus “one country on each side of the Strait,” he added.

There will be no more disputes over what is known as the “1992 Consensus” or the National Unification Guidelines, Tsao went on. “I believe,” he pointed out, “all the unnecessary disputes will end and the problem confronting the two sides of the Strait will be truly solved.”

How to go about it? he asks. First and foremost, the DPP has to give up any plan to conduct a referendum on independence for Taiwan, Tsao said.

“Then it should be declared that the Republic of China does not rule out the possibility of unification with the mainland (of China) with the proviso that a unification referendum has to be passed,” he stressed.

China should request that Taiwan hold the unification referendum.

Before the unification referendum is voted on, Tsao proposed, China has to clearly specify all conditions under which unification would take place, the purpose being to let the people of Taiwan know exactly how autonomous they will be, and make the right decision.

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