TAIPEI — A Chinese official visiting Taipei was ‘greeted’ by pro-independence protesters at the airport on Monday. <br /> <br />Sha Hailin, director of Shanghai municipal committee united front work department, came to Taipei to attend the annual twin-city forum between Taipei and Shanghai. The event started in 2010 and has continued since then. During the forum, Sha is expected to meet with Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je. <br /> <br />China has officially halted communications with Taiwan since President Tsai Ing-wen’s inauguration in May. Tsai has refused to acknowledge the “1992 consensus,” an agreement that China claims means that both sides recognize there is only one China. <br /> <br />“Of course everyone is very clear about this political foundation, in that everyone acknowledges the "One China" (policy). Looking back, cross-strait relations have developed speedily since 2008, and there has been a state of vivid cooperation and exchange,” Sha reiterated the importance of the one China policy at the press conference for the forum. <br /> <br />However, neither protesters nor Taiwanese netizens are accepting Sha’s perspective, with many asking that the “Communist Bandit” to leave Taiwan.
