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The PRC’s 18th Straits Forum will be held in the middle of this month. For the first time, the Mainland Affairs Council has announced a ban on central government and local government personnel from participating in any of its activities, a step up from its previous stance of “not recommending” they attend. The council says the event is the largest Chinese United Front operation targeting Taiwan. The first person to bear the brunt of the decision was Taitung County Commissioner Yao Ching-ling, of the KMT, who had put in an application to attend. Let’s hear what she and the council have to say.

Yao Ching-ling
Taitung County Commissioner
Actually, I don’t think it’s that important for me personally to be able to participate in the Straits Forum. I just feel it’s a bit of a pity. Whether problems can be solved is what I care more about. I’ve always felt my role as Taitung County Commissioner is a platform. If everyone can work together to make this platform better, that would be a very good thing. It’s a real shame.

Liang Wen-chieh
Mainland Affairs Council spokesperson
We prohibit participation in activities related to the Taiwan version of “one country, two systems,” or “democratic consultations” aimed at eliminating the ROC. We urge all sectors and political parties not to echo the CCP’s narrative on Taiwan and become tools for United Front work against Taiwan.

Chen Yu-chen
Lawmaker (KMT)
Why would you assume that they are necessarily trying to win us over? When we go and hold exchanges with them, why can’t we also win them over?

Chuang Jui-hsiung
Legislator (DPP)
The purpose of the entire Straits Forum is actually to promote unification. It’s about integration and promoting unification. There are so many forums around the world. Why do you insist on participating in this kind of forum that aims to eliminate our own country? From any government’s perspective, you would definitely express your opposition.

The Straits Forum, which is entirely conceived and guided by the PRC’s Taiwan Affairs Office since 2009 has seen its main attendees primarily from the KMT, New Party and some NGOs. The DPP has explicitly prohibited its party officials from participating. Although it claims to expand cross-strait people-to-people exchanges and strengthen cooperation, the core message of this forum is to emphasize that both sides of the Taiwan Strait share the same roots and that the motherland should be united peacefully.

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