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Liu Zhaojia, the vice president of the National Association for Hong Kong and Macau Studies argues that Beijing has moved towards its own position of “strategic clarity” on Taiwan policy following the publication of a dedicated white paper in August 2022 and the performance of a large-scale military exercise around the island following U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit. These developments, according to the author, make clear that Beijing “will not wait indefinitely for Taiwan’s return to China.” This departure from a “passive” stance by Beijing, Liu holds, will render the U.S. position of “strategic ambiguity” to be “no longer tenable” and force the U.S. to “clarify its intentions and plans” regarding Taiwan.
Published in the months leading up to Speaker Pelosi’s August trip to Taiwan, a scholar at a foreign ministry-backed think tank argues that “the Taiwan issue is the most important and sensitive core issue between the US and China,” and that in order to contain any “spillover” to the broader relationship, the two sides should focus on “confidence-building measures and crisis management cooperation.”
The Deputy Director of Xiamen University’s Taiwan Research Center argues that while Beijing’s preference remains to “reunify” peacefully, Taiwan “separatists” and the United States are “touching the red line drawn by the mainland.”
This article, published in the June issue of a leading Taiwan studies journal, argues that the U.S. cross-Strait policy faces a “strategic dilemma” of attempting to support Taiwan while avoiding conflict with China.
This academic article published in a leading Taiwan studies journal argues that in a “post-reunification” Taiwan, Beijing should design a “One Country, Two Systems” formula for the island based on its experience with Hong Kong. Under an institutional design of what he calls “delegated authority,” in which Hong Kong enjoys a high degree of operational autonomy but Beijing retains the power to intervene when the “fundamental interests of the country” are threatened, the author argues that Hong Kong has transitioned “from chaos to governance.”
This lengthy analysis of cross-Strait relations by Tian Feilong, a leading hardline intellectual who was vocally supportive of Hong Kong’s 2020 National Security Law, argues that Beijing’s formulation of “One Country, Two Systems” must adapt to changing circumstances in order to present a realistic path to “reunifying” Taiwan and the mainland.
This lengthy “literature review” appearing in one of the mainland’s core Taiwan studies journals explores how Chinese scholars conceptualize the “one country, two systems” framework in relation to Taiwan, including how such a system might be implemented in a “post-reunification” environment.
This prominent commentary by the current head of the State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office (and contender to replace Wang Yi as foreign minister) outlines Beijing’s current official assessment of cross-Strait relations and the path towards “reunification.”