BEIJING, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao, vowing China won't give up its claim on Taiwan, urged the island's leaders to reach a peace deal under the one-China principle.
The Chinese leader, addressing Monday's opening day of the 17th Communist Party Congress, warned about what he described as the stepping of “secessionist activities” by the forces for “Taiwan independence,” Xinhua reported.
“Here we would like to make a solemn appeal,” he said. “On the basis of the one-China principle, let us discuss a formal end to the state of hostility between the two sides, reach a peace agreement, construct a framework for peaceful development of cross-straits relations, and thus usher in a new phase of peaceful development.”
Hu warned his government “will never allow anyone to separate Taiwan from the motherland in any name or by any means.”
