Brussels. September 26. INTERFAX-Chinese President Xi Jinping described as a difficult situation that is developing in relations between Beijing and Taiwan, Western media reported on Sunday.
"At present, the situation in the Taiwan Strait is difficult and gloomy," the media quoted Xi Jinping's words of congratulations addressed to the new chairman of the main Taiwanese opposition Kuomintang party, Zhu Lilun.
Xi Jinping noted that the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang should cooperate on a common political basis. He added that both political forces need to seek peace and unification of the country.
In a reply letter to the President of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Lilun wrote that in order to achieve peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait area, Beijing and Taipei need to look for common ground, but at the same time take into account differences from each other.
The Taiwan issue arose in 1949, when the Communist People's Republic of China was proclaimed, and part of the Kuomintang Party settled on the island of Taiwan. Beijing insists on the "one-China principle", according to which both the PRC and the Republic of China on Taiwan cannot be recognized at the same time. At the same time, almost all major states have unofficial cultural and economic offices of Taipei.
The media remind that relations between Beijing and Taiwan significantly improved in the period 2008 - 2016, when the head of the Taiwanese administration was a representative of the Kuomintang Ma Ying-jeou. However, since Tsai Ing-wen became the head of the Taiwanese administration in 2016, Beijing has increased military pressure on Taiwan.
