KMT chair's Taiwan Strait remark 'playing with fire': Premier Cho

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Taipei, April 11 (CNA) Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) said on Saturday that Kuomintang (KMT) Chairperson Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) was "playing with fire" with her remark a day earlier that the Taiwan Strait should "never be a chessboard for interference by external forces."

Cheng made the remark during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) in Beijing on Friday, as she called for Taiwan and China to forge closer ties and avoid conflict.

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Cho told reporters in Taoyuan that the Taiwan Strait is an international waterway open to free transit, and Cheng's remark revealed an "erroneous" strategy that unilaterally pandered to China.

Comparing Cheng's stance to "playing with fire," Cho said it would put Taiwan's future and its people's free ...

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