One Zhonghua is not a new idea. The notion of a commonwealth or federation of independent Chinese states has been touted as a solution to Taiwan’s dilemma for decades by academics, editorialsand minor officials on both sides of the strait. But when Russian troops invaded Ukraine, it surfaced again.
mandag 13. mars 2023
A Chinese Commonwealth? An Unpopular Idea Resurfaces in Taiwan.
Three months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Annette Lu, a former vice president of Taiwan, stood before reporters to promote a wildly unpopular idea. China and Taiwan, she said, should form a commonwealth that would be integrated economically, like the European Union, but remain separate politically. She called it One Zhonghua — a word that means “Chinese” in a cultural, ethnic or literary sense but is distinct from the word that refers to China in a political sense. It was a wink at the Chinese Communist Party’s insistence that there is only one China and that Taiwan is an inextricable part of it.
One Zhonghua is not a new idea. The notion of a commonwealth or federation of independent Chinese states has been touted as a solution to Taiwan’s dilemma for decades by academics, editorialsand minor officials on both sides of the strait. But when Russian troops invaded Ukraine, it surfaced again.
One Zhonghua is not a new idea. The notion of a commonwealth or federation of independent Chinese states has been touted as a solution to Taiwan’s dilemma for decades by academics, editorialsand minor officials on both sides of the strait. But when Russian troops invaded Ukraine, it surfaced again.
