TAIWAN legislator John Kuan yesterday urged the senior echelon of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) to put aside personal interests and set a clear goal of national reunification with China.
In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Mr Kuan, who is a core member of the New Kuomintang Alliance - a pro-unification faction within the KMT - criticised fellow legislators for lacking vision to deal with the mainland's communist regime.
''Why is Taiwan unstable today? Why is the KMT divided? This is all because we don't have a well-defined policy . . . on our cross-straits relationship,'' he said.
For example, he said, Taiwan's leadership should define the role of the Mainland Affairs Commission (MAC) - a government organ responsible for the drafting of policy - so it can forge a healthy working relationship with the semi-official Straits ExchangeFoundation (SEF), the organisation responsible for Taiwan's day-to-day dealings with China.
Taiwan still operates an official ban on contact with the mainland, but unofficially the two sides continue to have a myriad of exchanges.
Mr Kuan said while the MAC was established to serve as a ''brake'' in monitoring contacts with the mainland, the SEF was formed to promote exchanges with Beijing.
''It indicates that we don't have a consensus among the senior echelon on our mainland policy,'' he said.