One day after the Democratic Progressive Party's Tsai Ing-wen took office as the island's new leader. While the Chinese mainland's Taiwan affairs authority said Tsai was ambiguous on the topic of the 'One China Principle', describing her remarks on Cross-Straits relations as 'an incomplete test answer', more reactions from both mainland and Taiwan have come along.

Demonstrators gathered near where Tsai Ing-wen was inaugurated Friday, to appeal to her to recognize the 1992 Consensus.  The consensus maintains that the mainland and Taiwan belong to one and the same China and Cross-Straits ties are not state-to-state relations. Coming from local organizations, demonstrators also expressed concern that cross-Straits exchanges and cooperation might suffer and Taiwan's economy could be affected. They also feared that the DPP might use the education and culture sectors to promote "implicit Taiwan independence," which they say could have an adverse effect on Taiwan's younger generations.

Mainland media have voiced similar concern.

People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China cautioned in a commentary on Saturday that a choice of different paths leads to different futures, and this choice involves the direct interests of the people on both sides of the Strait, as well as the peace and stability of the region.  The newspaper also said, people on both sides of the Strait will wait and see how Taiwan authorities make this choice based on their actual deeds.
The commentary also reaffirmed the Communist party's stance on the "fundamental issue of the nature of cross-straits relations."

In a similar vein, the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits released a statement on Saturday, saying that cross-Straits talks with its Taiwan counterpart should, as always, be based on the 1992 Consensus. And that cross-Straits negotiation and the contact mechanism with the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation will be maintained only if adherence to the 1992 consensus is confirmed by Taiwan.

Also on Saturday, the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office said that sticking to the 1992 Consensus creates the common political foundation for cross-Straits affairs authorities' regular communication. It said meetings, hotlines, "proper handling of many sensitive issues" and other active interactions from both sides in the last two years were possible because of the common ground.