Is Taiwan Part of China?

WhileBeijingmayamplifyfleetingandincompleteChineseruleofTaiwanduringtheQingdynastytojustifycurrentclaimsthatTaiwanispartof“OneChina,” ...

Is Taiwan Part of China?

That Taiwan is an inalienable part of China remains a sine qua non of Beijing’s diplomacy. Since Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on October 1, 1949, no Communist Chinese leader has brokered any compromise on the issue.

Speaking to the Supreme State Council in 1958, Mao declared, “Taiwan is ours, and we will never compromise on this issue, which is an issue of internal affairs.”1 He warned the United States that the only way to avoid a catastrophic defeat was to withdraw from the island. Just a year later, when he met Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, Mao reiterated, “Taiwan is an internal PRC issue.”2

Across the decades, Chinese Communist policy has been diplomatically, economically, and culturally fluid. The experience of the mainland Chinese under Mao’s rule and during the Cultural Revolution differed wildly from their aspirations under Deng Xiaoping, and Xi...

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