Xi Jinping’s Suppression of Hong Kong Democracy Pushes Taiwan Further From China
- Support for unification slumps as Taiwan’s self-identity grows
- China’s ‘one country, two systems’ lacks support in Taiwan
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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.
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.