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I have this idea of a Taiwan Consensus, which means people in Taiwan have to get together and form a consensus of their own and that they turn around to talk to the Chinese to form a cross-strait consensus so we can build a relationship on that consensus. And in my view, that is the right order to do things.

But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

I will make the greatest efforts to seek a way for Taiwan and mainland China to interact that is mutually acceptable to both sides. I will not be provocative; there will not be any surprises.

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.