Vice President Lu Receives a Group of Japanese Scholars to a Symposium on Problems Related to Mainland China
Taipei, March 29 (CNA) Vice President Annette Lu said Friday that the United States should enhance relations with Taiwan on the basis of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA).
Receiving a group of Japanese scholars to a symposium on problems related to mainland China, she also expressed the hope that major Western countries that maintain no formal relations with Taipei will follow the U.S. by enacting laws similar to the TRA so as to form the basis for promoting bilateral relations.
During the reception at the Presidential Office, the vice president said that the U.S. government should abandon its three joint communiques with Beijing. In addition, she continued, the TRA must be re-examined and further strengthened. Lu called on the Japanese scholars to support her idea of establishing a "democratic Pacific alliance" to strengthen cooperation among democratic and free oceanic countries in the Pacific region. She stressed the importance of developing Taiwan's "soft power" and "soft diplomacy" at a time when the world has become a "global village."
The vice president also expressed worry about the recent disclosure of confidential documents of the National Security Bureau, saying that "excessive freedom" might endanger the island's security.