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Hong Kong demands Taiwan officials sign 'one China' document for visa renewal

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Re: Hong Kong demands Taiwan officials sign 'one China' document for visa renewal

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> The source declined to say exactly how many Taiwan officials were asked to sign the paper but said its acting chief, Kao Ming-tsun, had returned to the island late on Thursday after he refused to sign the document upon his visa renewal.

Good on Kao.

Re: Hong Kong demands Taiwan officials sign 'one China' document for visa renewal

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The one-China policy is explicitly designed to be ambiguous about who controls this China, which lets the PRC pretend they control Taiwan and Taiwan pretend they control the mainland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy

So on the face of it, being asked to agree to this should not be objectionable to a Taiwanese official. Is the content of the doc they're being asked to sign available anywhere? Because it sounds like the devil is in the details here.

Re: Hong Kong demands Taiwan officials sign 'one China' document for visa renewal

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The one-China policy is explicitly designed to be ambiguous about who controls this China, which lets the PRC pretend they control Taiwan and Taiwan pretend they control the mainland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy So on the face of it, being asked to agree to this should not be objectionable to a Taiwanese official. Is the content of the doc they're being asked to sign available anywhere? Because it…

I only know about the One China policy from Wikipedia, but it seems like there's disagreement among the political parties of Taiwan about if they want to keep it. If I was an official, I wouldn't want to have signed a declaration that agrees to China's position unless it matched the official position of Taiwan.

Re: Hong Kong demands Taiwan officials sign 'one China' document for visa renewal

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The one-China policy is explicitly designed to be ambiguous about who controls this China, which lets the PRC pretend they control Taiwan and Taiwan pretend they control the mainland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy So on the face of it, being asked to agree to this should not be objectionable to a Taiwanese official. Is the content of the doc they're being asked to sign available anywhere? Because it…

Foreign policy is weird, countries don't give up on even trivial disputes without some concessions. Even seemingly trivial matters can be used for later negotiations. See the current list of US/Canada territorial disputes for an example notably Machias island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Cana...

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