From The Financial Times:

Hu Jintao, China’s president, on Thursday laid out in the clearest terms yet one of Beijing’s key conditions for any resumption of talks with Taiwan a call that met with immediate rejection from Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan’s president.

In a joint communiqu√© issued with visiting Taiwanese opposition leader, James Soong, Mr Hu spelled out with unprecedented clarity the content of a “consensus” between Beijing and Taipei that led to negotiations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait in 1992.

The move was a pointed rejoinder to Mr Chen, who has denied the existence of a “1992 consensus”, saying talks in the 1990s were possible basically because the two sides agreed to differ on issues of sovereignty.