One China framework

One China Framework (Chinese: 一个中国框架) is one of the policies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China on the one China principle. It was first proposed by CCP General Secretary Hu Jintao in his "Six Points" speech in 2006, and was written into the work report of the 18th CCP National Congress in 2012, becoming the official national policy of the People's Republic of China. This statement is used as one of the interpretations of the 1992 Consensus, advocating that mainland China and Taiwan should conduct peaceful negotiations under the common position of one China to promote the reunification of Taiwan with the People's Republic of China.

The One China framework is considered to be a relatively moderate and flexible policy because it only mentions China and does not emphasize that the PRC is the sole legal representative of China, nor does it emphasize that Taiwan is a territory of the PRC. It only mentions that mainland China and Taiwan belong to the same China, which may leave room for ambiguous interpretation. Therefore, in addition to the PRC officialdom, politicians in Taiwan also use this term, represented by the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang often believes that the One China framework means that the PRC allows for one China, different interpretations, but this interpretation is considered by the PRC to be a malicious distortion. One China cannot be interpreted as the Republic of China representing China, or allowing the Republic of China to express itself as representing China.^[1]

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After the 1992 Hong Kong talks, the Straits Exchange Foundation and the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits continued to coordinate their opinions via telegram. [The Chinese Communist Party proposed that "as long as both sides of the Taiwan Strait recognize one China and have no disagreement on the future unification", as long as both sides recognize this premise, they can temporarily not discuss the actual connotation of "one China". The Taiwanese side expressed respect for these expressions, and the first chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation, Koo Chen-fu, believed that the two sides had not reached a consensus.^[4]

After Tsai Ing-wen was elected President of the Republic of China, Wang Zaixi, former deputy director of the Taiwan Affairs Office, proposed the "one China, each side has its own interpretation" approach during a closed-door meeting in Beijing in 2016 when he met with a delegation of students from 31 universities and colleges in Taiwan. He believed that using "one China, each side has its own interpretation" to describe the 1992 Consensus was a wrong distortion. It was impossible for the Chinese mainland to accept the statement that "one China is the Republic of China", which also violated the tacit understanding between the two sides. The "one China, each side has its own interpretation" approach should be used instead.^[1]^[5]

Wang Zaixhi, former deputy director of the Taiwan Affairs Office, proposed this phrase in 2016 to summarize the Chinese mainland's position in the 1992 Hong Kong talks, namely, "each side verbally expressed the consensus that both sides of the Taiwan Strait adhere to the one-China principle".^[6]

Former Vice President of the Republic of China Wu Den-yih believed and emphasized that the 1992 Consensus is " one China, each with its own interpretation" rather than "each with its own interpretation, one China", and that the result of the cross-strait exchange of notes is that "both sides of the strait adhere to the principle of one China, but as to its meaning, both sides agree to express it in verbal statements".^[7] However, this statement was also criticized by Sun Yangming, former deputy executive director of the Kuomintang think tank "National Policy Foundation", as a distortion of history, making the situation more difficult to clarify.^[8]^[9]

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