By ANTARA News,
Jakarta : The Indonesian government considered the China-Taiwan meeting a positive development, a spokesman of the Indonesian Foreign Ministry said.
“The government always welcomed dialogs on reducing tension in China-Taiwan relations,” the spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said on Friday.
Chinese envoy for Taiwanese affairs Chen Yunlin visited Taiwan to meet Taiwan’s President Ma Ying Jeou Thursday (Nov 6).
“Indonesia also supports dialogs which may contribute to stability in those parts of the world and solve their problem,” Faizasyah added.
The Taiwanese and Chinese governments on Tuesday (Nov 4) also speeded up flight expansions, and open up shipping lanes in the Taiwan Strait.
“We can see that the Chinese approach to Taiwan is a positive development,” Faizasyah said.
However, many people protested Chen’s visit to Taipei and Ma’s policy seen as bringing Taiwan closer to China.
The meeting was one of the highest-level of exchanges between officials from mainland China and Taiwan since 1949, when the Kuomintang, the party led by Chiang Kai-shek, lost the Chinese civil war to the Communists and retreated to Taiwan.