Vice-president Xi Jinping yesterday warned that all agreements made with Taiwan would become invalid if it failed to recognise the so-called 1992 consensus.
Xi gave the warning at a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (Arats) at the Great Hall of the People yesterday.
'If the 1992 consensus is denied, negotiations across the strait cannot continue and all the agreements made in the past cannot be fulfilled. Cross-strait relations will return to the volatile situation of the past.'
Under the consensus, both sides recognise there is only one China, which each interprets in its own way.
Xi's warning seemed to target DPP candidate Dr Tsai Ing-wen, who said earlier that there was no 1992 consensus.
Meanwhile, at a forum in Hong Kong yesterday, Zhou Zhihuai, deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Taiwan Studies, stressed the importance of the 1992 consensus in paving the way for the peaceful development of cross-strait relations.
But he said everything would be ruined if the opposition Democratic Progressive Party returned to power, because of its hostility towards that consensus.