A year before Britain handed Hong Kong to China, then-President Jiang Zemin hailed the “one country, two systems” plan for the city as a model for the country to one day unify with Taiwan.
A year before Britain handed Hong Kong to China, then-president Jiang Zemin (江澤民) hailed the “one country, two systems” plan for the city as a model for the country to one day unify with Taiwan.
Taiwan would get “a high degree of autonomy” the same pledge China used for Hong Kong while keeping legislative and independent judicial power, and its own armed forces, according to Jiang’s speech, copies of which were distributed at Hong Kong’s handover center in 1997.
For Taiwan though, the proposal has never been an option. Even the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) a vestige of
a Chinese Communist Party media outlet on Sunday accused the U.S. of trying to goad China into “rushed military action” against the island, in order to force vacillating regional countries to support its anti-China campaign.
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