PRESIDENT TSAI: TAIWAN WILL NOT BEND TO PRESSURE FROM CHINA|外媒專訪 蔡盼中國 勿誤解用壓力能屈服台灣人

As cross-strait relations enter a stalemate, many are looking forward to President Tsai's Double Ten National speech. However, during an interview yesterday with the Wall Street Journal, Tsai said that she has already shown the greatest flexibility and goodwill that Taiwan could offer in her May inauguration speech. She said, hopefully China won't mistakenly believe that it could bend the Taiwanese people's will with pressure. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on October 4th, President Tsai stressed that her commitment to maintain the status quo in cross-strait relations has not changed, nor has her goodwill. While she stressed that Taiwan will not bend under China's pressure, she also said that there will be no political confrontation with the mainland as the DPP had done when it was last in office. ==TSAI ING-WEN, R.O.C. President== I also urge Mainland China not to misunderstand and misjudge the current situation. The will of the Taiwanese people will not be bent by pressure. But I also hope that the two sides could sit down for better communication and for resolving unnecessary misunderstandings as soon as possible. According to Tsai, when she visited Panama in June, China was still willing to show goodwill. Yet Beijing's move at the recent ICAO Assembly made her fear that cross-Strait relations may have returned to its old days, and that a worsening stalemate might be further down the road. Tsai said that her May inauguration speech has shown the greatest flexibility and goodwill Taiwan could offer, and hoped that Beijing respects the decisions and judgment Taiwan has made as a democracy. She urged both sides to remain rational and calm. Experts pointed out that Tsai's remarks implied that her administration's position on cross-Strait relations hasn't changed. ==LIN CHONG-PIN, Former Deputy Chairman of M.A.C.== Her interview yesterday might have taken weight off of her coming Double-Tenth National Speech, which many have been looking forward to. What Tsai said in the interview was true, her goodwill had been reciprocated by Beijing until her inauguration in May. The development afterward has been rather unfortunate, as both sides don't seem to trust each other. During the interview, Tsai was also asked if she plans to meet with her mainland counterpart. In response, Tsai said communication is desirable, but it should not be restricted to readily defined political frameworks. According to Tsai answer's, it could perhaps be concluded that she had not ruled out the possibility of a tete-a-tete with Xi Jinping. Experts said that a meeting may have more of a chance of taking place after China's 19th National Congress next year. TRANSLATED BY：JEFF CHANG 總統蔡英文4日接受美國華爾街日報專訪時表示，她對維持兩岸關係現狀的承諾不變、善意也不變，但她也強調台灣不會屈服於中國壓力，也不會走到對抗的老路上去。 ==總統 蔡英文== 我也希望中國大陸方面不要誤解 也不要誤判這整個情勢 以為就是說 用壓力 用壓力就可以讓臺灣人來屈服 但是我也希望就是說 我們雙方儘快坐下來談 讓我們雙方之間的溝通可以更好 讓很多不必要的誤解可以排除 蔡英文也表示她六月出訪巴拿馬時，有看到到一些來自中國的善意，但最近中國在ICAO事件上的表現，讓她覺得有開始走回頭路的感覺，她擔心雙方關係會愈來愈僵化。蔡英文表示她520就職演說的內容，已經展現我方最大的彈性與善意，她希望對岸尊重臺灣民主機制產生的立場與判斷，回到520之後那段時間，雙方盡力維持理性及冷靜的立場。有學者分析蔡英文這番發言，明確向對岸表達她的兩岸政策與立場沒有改變。 ==前陸委會副主委 林中斌== 可能取代了十月十日的演講 大家所期盼的重量 所以這就把十月十日 演講的重要性沖淡了 蔡總統所講的的確是事實 就是她之前表達很多的善意 她也看到北京回報善意 但是在520以後情形又變了 我覺得這是很不幸的一件事情 因為雙方缺少互信 另外專訪當中，蔡英文也被問到是否有和中國領導人習近平會面的想法嗎？蔡英文表示雙方可以見面、坐下來談談是好事，但如果協商前要先設定政治的框架做為前提，她覺得不好。不過可以確定的是蔡英文並不排斥蔡習會的可能性，林中斌分析明年中共19大之後，兩岸如果各自內政問題都處理到一個階段，說不定會出現兩岸領導人見面的契機。 記者 張志雄 陳信隆 台北報導