differing interpretations

• China believes that ‘Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’ - Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs


  A 2019 white paper calls for ‘peaceful reunification’ and ‘oppose and contain Taiwan independence’. 

  • ‘China must and will be reunited.’ 
• However, Taiwan believes that they are a sovereign state

  Tsai Ing-Wen to BBC (2020)

  ‘We don’t have to declare ourselves an independent state. We are an independent country already’