"Today's meeting with Chief Executive Chui was a positive step. Because Taiwan has very close ties with Macau, it can be a good model for relations between Taiwan and Hong Kong or across the Taiwan Strait."

“For us to simply sit at the same table, sit down to discuss issues, is already not an easy thing.”

“The government’s stance on cross-strait ties is based on the 1992 consensus and our stance that ‘one China’ means the ROC is unequivocal and has never changed.”

“We believe if the mainland really values how the Taiwanese people feel, and if it wishes to improve mutual political trust between both sides, it will grant Taiwan representative office personnel the right to visit for humanitarian reasons.”

“We have no problem addressing them by their official titles, although they still have reservations about extending the same courtesy to our ministerial-level officials. This is not a personal issue. If there is a formal meeting, I am representing Taiwan.”

“I told him that this is pretty much what we experience in our daily lives. We are used to it. Now that he is head of the Taiwan Affairs Office, he has to understand Taiwan more.”

“President Ma has said in the past that cross-strait relations are not state-to-state relations, and his remarks on National Day carried the same meaning.”