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	Ready for peace talks with Taiwan: China
	2009-03-05 (Thursday), Times of India
	BEIJING: China is ready to talk peace with Taiwan, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Thursday in a new overture to the neighbouring self-ruled island it claims as its own. China was "ready to create conditions for ending the state of hostility" with Taiwan, Wen said in the text of his work report, given on the first day of the annual parliamentary session. China has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, when defeated Nationalist forces fled to the island, under its "one China" policy. Beijing has vowed to bring the island under mainland rule, by force if necessary. But ties have warmed since mainland-friendly Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou took office in May and the two sides have signed deals to enhance tourist and business flows. "Cross-strait relations have embarked on the track of peaceful development," Wen said in the text. "... We will work on the basis of the one-China principle to enhance mutual political trust between the two sides. "... We are also ready to hold talks on cross-strait political and military issues and create conditions for ending the state of hostility and concluding a peace agreement between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait." Wen did not elaborate on talks on political and military issues, but they could include military confidence building, Chinese military vessels making port calls on Taiwan ports and vice versa. Wen's remarks, however, also come when Taiwan is increasingly reliant on China amid the global economic slump, which has also sapped trade and investment. China is the island's largest trading partner and their two-way trade is worth more than $130 billion a year. China's Communist Party-controlled parliament is set to approve military spending for 2009 of 480.7 billion yuan ($70.2 billion), up 14.9 per cent on 2008, and a lot of that spending is focused on Taiwan. Media reports have said China has raised the number of short-range missiles aimed at the island off its coast to about 1,500, Taiwanese officials and experts said last month, a sign of continued distrust despite the recent warming of ties. Copyright © 2009 Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd.

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