Beijing’s director of the Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), Song Tao, has held a rare meeting with a delegation of US scholars that pledged to push for the peaceful development of cross-strait ties.
During the meeting in Beijing on Tuesday with a delegation from the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) led by its president and CEO, Susan M. Elliott, Song spoke of a broader diplomatic context following high-level summit meetings between Chinese and US leadership.
“President Xi Jinping elaborated on China’s principled stance on the Taiwan question during his recent summit with the US leadership, emphasising that China firmly safeguards national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Song said, according to an official State Council TAO release.