China and Taiwan: Resolution-Part Two

China and Taiwan: Resolution-Part Two

Please read the previous post for background information on this topic.

The China-Taiwan conflict has been going on for 73 years. In order for tensions to be practically eliminated, the following needs to occur.

1. The current status-quo needs to change. Currently, both nations are claiming to be "China". Obviously this cannot be the case. There must be two independent and sovereign nations.

2. In the Eighties, at least a quarter of the people living in Taiwan considered themselves Chinese. Now that figure is down to three percent. The vast majority of these people living on that island now consider themselves Taiwanese. Therefore the Republic of China(name of the Taiwanese nation) should be renamed the Republic Of Taiwan.
All claims of governance that the Taiwanese government has on Mainland China should be renounced. The Taiwan government should no longer claim to represent the people living on Mainland China. Rather, it should allow PRC to be the sole nation of China. 

3. The People's Republic Of China, led by the Chinese Communist Party, should no longer consider Taiwan as its province. It should instead acknowledge Taiwan's status as a free and independent nation as the PRC accepts its status as the sole government of China.

4. The Taiwan government must have a pacifist constitution in which they are de-militarized. They can accept offers of war guarantees from other nations. However, Taiwan would be prohibited from having any foreign military presence on its soil.

5. The PRC pledges that it will never seek a military solution to resolve any disputes that it would possibly have with the de-militarized Republic Of Taiwan.

6. In the initial agreement between both Mainland China and Taiwan that establishes Taiwan as an independent and sovereign nation, the Taiwanese and Chinese can allow unrestricted travel and tariff-free trade between the citizens of the two sovereign nations.

These six steps are needed to finally get rid of the ambiguity that presently exists. There needs to be a clear and precise establishment of the status of each territorial entity. When Chiang Kia-Shek and the Nationalists fled Mainland China from the Communists and then set up its base in the island of Formosa that would later be renamed Taiwan, they were not not at all trying to form a new nation. Instead they claimed to be the Chinese government in exile.

73 years later, obviously times have changed. People in Taiwan have no recollection and awareness of the animosity that once existed between that exiled Nationalists and the Mainland Communists. Two and a half generations have gone since the exodus of the founders of Taiwan. People on that island have attached themselves to the island they were born and live on. The vast majority of these people consider themselves Taiwanese exclusively. It is high time they be recognized as such.