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China-Taiwan unification
![Taiwanese Presidents Will Not and Can Not Unilaterally Change Taiwan’s Status Taiwanese Presidents Will Not and Can Not Unilaterally Change Taiwan’s Status](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-01-12.jpg)
Taiwanese Presidents Will Not and Can Not Unilaterally Change Taiwan’s Status
By Brian Hioe and Lev Nachman
A single leader cannot make Taiwan independent or unify it with the People Republic of China. Even trying either course would be political suicide.
![More and More Taiwanese Favor Independence – and Think the US Would Help Fight for It More and More Taiwanese Favor Independence – and Think the US Would Help Fight for It](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2019-12-20.jpg)
More and More Taiwanese Favor Independence – and Think the US Would Help Fight for It
By Dennis V. Hickey
The latest Taiwan National Security Survey contains both good and bad news for cross-strait stability.
![The End of Strategic Ambiguity in the Taiwan Strait The End of Strategic Ambiguity in the Taiwan Strait](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-05-19-7.jpg)
The End of Strategic Ambiguity in the Taiwan Strait
By Eric Chan
The collapse of confidence in long-term advantage means the era of strategic ambiguity is over.
![Hong Kong National Security Law: The View From Taiwan Hong Kong National Security Law: The View From Taiwan](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-01-07-18.jpg)
Hong Kong National Security Law: The View From Taiwan
By T.Y. Wang
China’s new national security legislation for Hong Kong will only harden Taiwan citizens’ determination to resist Beijing’s unification offer.
![Where Does China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ Stand in 2020? Where Does China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ Stand in 2020?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-800px-hong_kong_anti-extradition_bill_protest_48108527873.jpg)
Where Does China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ Stand in 2020?
By Derek Grossman
The framework for governing Hong Kong and Macau – and, Beijing hopes, one day Taiwan – is battered but unbroken.
![Is This the End of the 1992 Consensus? Is This the End of the 1992 Consensus?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-48054869131_4097eb4c13_k.jpg)
Is This the End of the 1992 Consensus?
By Zihao Liu
The 1992 Consensus is being challenged by each of the three major forces shaping cross-strait relations: the DPP, the KMT, and Beijing.
![Taiwan’s Usually Obscure Party Lists Might Swing Its Legislative Election Taiwan’s Usually Obscure Party Lists Might Swing Its Legislative Election](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2019-12-11-2.jpg)
Taiwan’s Usually Obscure Party Lists Might Swing Its Legislative Election
By Lev Nachman and Brian Hioe
The KMT was riding high in legislative polls -- until a huge misstep with its party lists.
![Why Did Beijing Suppress Wang Yang’s Remarks on Taiwan? Why Did Beijing Suppress Wang Yang’s Remarks on Taiwan?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-ap_17298206093311.jpg)
Why Did Beijing Suppress Wang Yang’s Remarks on Taiwan?
By Dave Brown
The Politburo Standing Committee member spoke candidly at a cross-strait media summit – apparently too candidly.
![What China’s Greater Bay Area Plan Means for Taiwan What China’s Greater Bay Area Plan Means for Taiwan](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-800px-hong_kong-zhuhai-macau_bridge_at_sha_lo_wan_20180918131126.jpg)
What China’s Greater Bay Area Plan Means for Taiwan
By Tao Peng
China’s plan for Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao integration demonstrates the “One Country, Two Systems” model for Taiwan.
![Is This the End of the ‘1992 Consensus’? Is This the End of the ‘1992 Consensus’?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2017-04-14_15-18-23.jpg)
Is This the End of the ‘1992 Consensus’?
By Gary Sands
Tsai Ing-wen is promoting her alternative 'Taiwan consensus,' but the KMT remains committed to the 1992 consensus.
![How President Xi Jinping Is Misreading Taiwan How President Xi Jinping Is Misreading Taiwan](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-31344756118_59575f1437_k.jpg)
How President Xi Jinping Is Misreading Taiwan
By Gerrit van der Wees
Xi's January 2 remarks betrayed three fundamental misunderstandings of the Taiwan situation.
![6 Km From China, Taiwan's Kinmen Charts Its Own Path 6 Km From China, Taiwan's Kinmen Charts Its Own Path](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-img_20180827_181519.jpg)
6 Km From China, Taiwan's Kinmen Charts Its Own Path
By Nick Aspinwall
As Taiwan pushes to distance itself from China, Kinmen Island wants to build a bridge to Xiamen and “become a peninsula.”