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The one-China policy is explicitly designed to be ambiguous about who controls this China, which lets the PRC pretend they control Taiwan and Taiwan pretend the
by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
The one-China policy is explicitly designed to be ambiguous about who controls this China, which lets the PRC pretend they control Taiwan and Taiwan pretend they control the mainland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy
So on the face of it, being asked to agree to this should not be objectionable to a Taiwanese official. Is the content of the doc they're being asked to sign available anywhere? Because it sounds like the devil is in the details here.
- toast0 6y agoI only know about the One China policy from Wikipedia, but it seems like there's disagreement among the political parties of Taiwan about if they want to keep it. If I was an official, I wouldn't want to have signed a declaration that agrees to China's position unless it matched the official position of Taiwan.
- lumost 6y agoForeign policy is weird, countries don't give up on even trivial disputes without some concessions. Even seemingly trivial matters can be used for later negotiations. See the current list of US/Canada territorial disputes for an example notably Machias island. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Canada_and_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Cana...