An exiled mainland dissident yesterday said Taiwan should call a national affairs conference soon after Saturday's election to prepare for resumption of talks with China.
Su Shaozhi, former head of the Research Institute of Marxism, Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought in Beijing, said talks were needed to resolve cross-strait tensions.
Mr Su said China's policy towards Taiwan, guided by President Jiang Zemin's eight-point instruction for peaceful unification, had not been changed despite the recent military exercises.
'Such intimidations are aimed to stop the United States and Japan from supporting Lee Teng-hui and an independent Taiwan,' said Mr Su, who fled Beijing after the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989.
Mr Su, chairman of Princeton Chinese Institute in the United States, is with a group of dissidents visiting Taiwan.
Others include former student leaders Chai Ling and Li Lu, journalist Liu Binyan and writer Wang Ruowang.
