BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Wednesday released a white paper on Taiwan, which it considers part of the country. In the white paper, the sentence stating that the military and government personnel will not be dispatched even after the reunification of Taiwan is removed, suggesting the withdrawal of the “one country, two systems” policy. The Taiwanese side criticized the white paper for ignoring the facts and said Taiwan is a sovereign state.
The past two white papers, in 1993 and 2000, stated that after unification, “we will not dispatch troops stationed in Taiwan or administrative officials to Taiwan,” and indicated a policy of recognizing autonomy even after Taiwan became a special administrative region of China. There is no such sentence in the latest white paper.
Also, the 2000 white paper stated that “anything can be negotiated” as long as Taiwan does not accept the one-China concept and pursue independence, but that is also missing from the current white paper.
The title of the white paper is “Taiwan Issue and Chinese Unification in the New Era.” “New era” is a term used in connection with President Xi Jinping’s rule.
The Continental Commission, which oversees Taiwan’s China policy, criticized the white paper as “full of wishful thinking lies and ignoring the facts.” “Taiwan is a sovereign nation, and only its 23 million residents have the right to decide the future of Taiwan, and we will never accept the consequences of a dictatorship,” he said.
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