China's Failed Charm Offensive to Reunify Taiwan with the Mainland

Deng Xiaoping’s Unfulfilled Dream

One Country, Two Systems is the political arrangement under which Hong Kong now exists within the People’s Republic of China. The short story of it is that Hong Kong was a British colony for 150 or so years. The Empire had first acquired it from the Qing Dynasty in 1842 after the First Opium War, expanded it after 1860 after the Second Opium War and then added to it with a 99 year lease of the New Territories in 1898.

In 1984, Great Britain and the PRC came up with a declaration that would transfer sovereignty of Hong Kong to China. In order to allay concerns about what is going to happen to Hong Kong, Deng Xiaoping - China’s paramount leader came up with a system called “1 country, 2 systems”. After the HK handover in 1997, it meant that Hong Kong would be able to keep its way of doing business, its laws, and police force separate from China for 50 years - 2046.

This system has been on the lips of the Hong Kong people for a long time since then. There has been protests, disagreements, fights and lots and lots of arguments over this philosophy of 1 Country, 2 Systems. I am not really going to write about that here, but instead I will discuss 1 Country, 2 System’s role in the wooing of Taiwan throughout the 1980s.

1 Country 2 Systems was originally created for Taiwan but it failed to woo them back.

Music

Batty McFaddin - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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You can read the collected scripts for this and other videos in this series on cross-strait relations here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C5GZD98

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