Ma Yingjiu Criticizes Lai Qingde's New "Two Countries Theory": Both sides of the Taiwan Straits may face unpredictable risks and challenges

Ma Yingjiu bitterly criticized Lai Qingde's new "two countries theory": the two sides of the Taiwan Straits may face unpredictable risks and challenges. (Picture from Taiwan media)

On May 21, www.taiwan.com.cn, Lai Qingde declared that the two sides of the Taiwan Straits "do not belong to each other" in his inaugural speech yesterday (20), causing heated debate outside.

In this regard, Xiao Xucen, CEO of the Ma Ying jeou Foundation, criticized Qingde's remarks yesterday, which was a naked provocation.

Ma Ying jeou also criticized Lai today for his new "two countries theory", and the two sides may face unpredictable risks and challenges. He said that according to the constitutional provisions of the Taiwan region, the two sides of the Taiwan Straits are not two countries, nor are they not subordinate to each other, nor will they move towards "Taiwan independence", which is an important guarantee of peace in the Taiwan Straits.

The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council stressed yesterday that Taiwan leaders ignored public opinion and acted against the current, releasing dangerous signals of seeking "independence" to provoke and undermine peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, fully exposing their nature as "Taiwan independence workers". The motherland must and must be unified. No matter how the situation in the island changes, no matter who is in power, it will not change the fact that both sides of the Taiwan Straits belong to one China, change the basic pattern and development direction of cross Straits relations, or stop the historical trend of the eventual reunification of the motherland. (Editor/Zhang Ling)