China has withdrawn its pledge not to send troops or administrators to Taiwan in the event of a seizure, signaling less autonomy than Chines...
China has withdrawn its pledge not to send troops or administrators to Taiwan in the event of a seizure, signaling less autonomy than Chinese President Xi Jinping had previously offered.
China's new white paper on its stance on independent Taiwan comes after its extensive military exercises near the island, Reuters reported, following a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week. were started as a protest against
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China had previously stated in two white papers in 1993 and 2000 that it would not send its troops and administrators to Taiwan if it were annexed.
However, the wording is not included in the current white paper, which is being interpreted as an assurance to Taiwan that Taiwan will have autonomy after becoming a special administrative region of China.
China's ruling Communist Party had proposed that Taiwan could be returned to China under a 'one country, two systems' formula, similar to the formula under which the former British colony of Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997.
But Taiwan, governed under a democratic system, will be granted limited autonomy to partially preserve its social and political system.
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On the other hand, all of Taiwan's main political parties have rejected China's 'one country, two systems' offer, and according to a survey, this idea does not even have public support, so the Taiwanese government says that its future Only the people of Taiwan have the power to decide.
In the white paper issued by China in 2000, a sentence was written that if Taiwan only recognizes China and cannot demand independence, then negotiations can be held on anything, but from the white paper that has come out now. This line is also missing.
Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council condemned China's current white paper, saying it was 'wishful thinking full of lies, ignoring facts', adding that the Republic of China (which is Taiwan's official name) is a sovereign state.
The Mainland Affairs Council added that only Taiwan's 23 million people have the right to decide Taiwan's future, and they will never accept the results determined by an authoritarian government.
The latest white paper is called 'The Taiwan Question and China's Reunification in the New Era', a term commonly associated with the rule of the Chinese president.
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The Chinese president is expected to seek a third term at the Communist Party Congress later this year.
When Mao Zedong's Communist Party overcame the civil war, the defeated Republic of China government took refuge on the island, which has threatened Chinese intervention on Taiwan since 1949.
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