Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je says this year’s Taipei-Shanghai City Forum will proceed as scheduled.
Ko was speaking after Shanghai’s recent decision to sever its ties with the city of Prague. Prague had upset Shanghai by establishing sister-city ties with Taipei, which the Shanghai City government said violated the ‘One China’ policy.
Ko said that China has no right to interfere in Prague’s decisions about which cities to build relations with. Ko also said that the Taipei-Shanghai City Forum is an important cross-strait event. He said the exchange deals purely with cultural and economic issues, and that therefore he does not see a reason to cancel the forum.