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URGENT: Tsai's speech on cross-Straits ties offers "an incomplete answer sheet:" mainland official

Xinhua, May 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Chinese mainland's Taiwan affairs authority on Friday described remarks by Taiwan's new leader Tsai Ing-wen on relations across the Taiwan Straits as "an incomplete answer sheet."

In her inauguration address, Tsai "was ambiguous on the fundamental issue of the nature of cross-Straits relations, an issue that is of utmost concern to people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits," head of the mainland's Taiwan Affairs authority said in a statement.

"There was no explicit recognition of the 1992 Consensus and its core implications, and no proposal of concrete ways to ensure the peaceful and stable development of cross-Straits relations," it reads. Endi