| Wang–Koo summit | |||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 汪辜會談 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 汪辜会谈 | ||||||||||||||
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| Koo–Wang talks | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 辜汪會談 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 辜汪会谈 | ||||||||||||||
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TheWang–Koo summit, alternatively theKoo–Wang talks, was an attempt at across-strait meeting that took place in 1993 with some follow up meetings up to 1998 betweenAssociation for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) chairmanWang Daohan andStraits Exchange Foundation (SEF) chairmanKoo Chen-fu.
In 1992, a year before the Wang–Koo summit inHong Kong, semiofficial meetings were held between thePeople's Republic of China (PRC) and theRepublic of China (ROC). The PRC and the ROC claim that this allowed either side to interpret their own version of "One China" through the1992 Consensus.[1] Critics have also pointed out that the term was not created contemporaneously within the timeframe of the meeting: the term was coined in April 2000 by former National Security Council secretary-general Su Chi, eight years after the 1992 meetings,[2]
From April 27–29, 1993 the Wang–Koo summit meeting took place inSingapore. It was the first public meeting between figures ofnon-governmental organization (NGO) since 1949.[1] Four agreements were signed to promote trade and people-to-people exchanges. After the meeting, 20 more consultations at different levels were held.[3]
Around the time of the1996 ROC presidential election, the mainland'sPeople's Liberation Army firedballistic missiles during theThird Taiwan Strait Crisis.
In 1998 Wang and Koo met again inShanghai.[3] A year later, the two sides would suspend talks in 1999 after the thenPresident of the Republic of China andKuomintang chairmanLee Teng-hui proposed theSpecial state-to-state relations.[1] There would be no meetings for nine years until the 2008First Chen-Chiang summit.
