Ding Shouzhong launched the "Cross-Strait Peace Initiative" and Liang Wenjie was bitter: If you want to surrender, you can do it in 1949

As the Chinese Communist Party officially commemorates Sun Yat-sen's birthday and promotes reunification with Taiwan, former Kuomintang legislator and chairman of the Cross-Strait Development Research Foundation Ding Shouzhong, former examination dean Guan Zhong and 260 experts, scholars, and reunification figures jointly launched the "Cross-Strait Peace Initiative" today. Mainland Affairs Council spokesman Liang Wenjie was very upset today. If you want to appeal for peace, you should appeal to the CCP. Don’t get the wrong target. “Peace is not surrender. If you want to surrender, you could have surrendered in 1949. Why bring 2 million people to Taiwan?”

The four major propositions of the Cross-Strait Peace Initiative are: 1. Prioritize peace, put the welfare of the people on both sides of the Strait first, oppose war, and avoid any form of armed conflict. Start by reducing hostility and stop criticizing and stigmatizing each other. 2. The two sides of the Taiwan Strait should resume dialogue, establish sustained channels of peaceful communication, strengthen people-to-people exchanges, and rebuild friendship and mutual trust between the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

3. Deepen cooperation on functional matters, create common interests across the Taiwan Strait, and explore new opportunities for cross-Strait industrial cooperation in the face of the reorganization of the global industrial chain. 4. Face up to history and reality, respect each other's differences, adhere to equality, respect and mutual benefit, build a sense of community across the Taiwan Straits, create conditions for final political consultation and political institutional arrangements, and share sustainable peace and prosperity.

In this regard, Liang Wenjie said at the Mainland Affairs Council press conference that this initiative was proposed by Guanzhong, Ding Shouzhong and more than 200 "old face" scholars. In fact, the whole world knows the importance of peace across the Taiwan Strait, and the whole world also knows that it is the CCP that wants to destroy peace now, not Taiwan. So if you want to appeal for peace, you should appeal to the CCP, and don’t get the wrong target.

Liang Wenjie pointed out that this statement mentioned that "cross-strait peace should be the highest priority and oppose war and confrontation." No one disagrees with this sentence, "I also agree." But peace is not surrender, because surrender cannot buy equality and dignity, nor can freedom and democracy be preserved. "If we wanted to surrender, we could have surrendered in 1949. Why would we bring 2 million people to Taiwan?"

Liang Wenjie criticized that this group of people called for "the two sides to jointly negotiate the final political arrangement." He cited the words of Mr. Ching-kuo. Chiang once said in 1982: "The CCP does not keep its promises. Any expectation that the CCP will allow Taiwan to maintain its own socio-economic system after reunification with the mainland is unrealistic." This statement can be fully confirmed by the experience of Hong Kong in recent years.

Liang Wenjie called on all sectors of society to recognize the CCP’s ambition to annex Taiwan, and not to have unrealistic illusions, nor to cater to the CCP’s narrative about Taiwan and mislead the international community’s understanding.