FORGE DIALOGUE WITH PRO-TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE.

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Ju Kao-jeng, now a professor with the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, made the appeal at a world Chinese “anti-independence, pro-unification” meeting.

Ju said Beijing authorities should learn from the late mainland Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping’s strategy of "preventing leftist movement but not opposing leftists” in promoting their anti-Taiwan independence campaign.

“Beijing should instead increase dialogue with pro independence diehards and welcome them to visit the mainland to see for themselves mainland China’s development and reform in recent years,” Ju urged.

Moreover, Ju said Beijing should take bold steps to recruit Taiwanese talents to take part in the development of western mainland provinces, which lag far behind coastal mainland provinces in economic development.

“My observation is that mainland authorities should offer incentives to attract Taiwan entrepreneurs to invest in inland western China and invite prominent Taiwanese figures to serve as advisers or chief administrators in various western mainland provinces to help boost the region’s development,” he added.

Ju said he is convinced that so long as mainland China continues economic development and sweeping reform, Taiwan will gradually integrate with the mainland.

Ju was among the 20-plus delegates from Taiwan to attend the ongoing world Chinese meeting aimed at thwarting Taiwan independence movement and promoting unification of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. The group was led by Liang Su-jung, a former speaker of the ROC's Legislative Yuan.