One Country on Each Side

• TheOne China policyin practice.
  People's Republic of China(PRC).
  Republic of China(ROC).
  Countries recognizing the PRC only.
  Countries recognizing the ROC only.
  Countries recognizing the PRC, but have semi-formal relations with the ROC.
  Countries without reported relations with either the PRC or the ROC.

One Country on Each Side
Traditional Chinese	Nhất biên nhất quốc
Simplified Chinese	Nhất biên nhất quốc
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yī biān yī guó Southern Min HokkienPOJ Chi̍t Pêng Chi̍t Kok

Banner during a 2012 rally in Taipei. Translation: "Our Taiwan is not China. Taiwan and China, one country on each side."

One Country on Each Sideis a concept consolidated in theDemocratic Progressive Partygovernment led byChen Shui-bian,the formerpresident of the Republic of China(2000–2008), regarding thepolitical status of Taiwan.It emphasizes that thePeople's Republic of Chinaand theRepublic of China(or alternatively,Taiwanitself) are two different countries, (namely "One China, one Taiwan"), as opposed totwo separate political entitieswithin the same country of "China".This is the position of the supporters of thePan-Green coalition.

History

InPeng Ming-min’s 1964Declaration of Formosan Self-Salvation,it was stated that “One China, one Taiwan” had been an ironclad fact ( “Nhất cá trung quốc, nhất cá đài loan” tảo dĩ thị thiết nhất bàn đích sự thật ).The same concept “One China, One Formosa”was presented inChen Lung-chuandHarold Lasswell’s book-length proposal in 1967 —Formosa, China and the United Nations: Formosa in the World Community.

Chen used this phrase in an August 3, 2002, telecast to the annual conference of theWorld Federation of Taiwanese Associationsmeeting in Tokyo when he stated that it needs to be clear that "with Taiwan and China on each side of theTaiwan Strait,each side is a country. "His statements were made inTaiwanese Minnanas opposed toMandarinand drew a barrage of criticism from themainland Chinese press,which had previously shied away from the types of attacks it gave toLee Teng-hui,who promoted a similar "special state-to-state relations".The United States also expressed serious concerns over this concept, as the U.S. felt that this concept appeared to have departed from Chen's earlier pledge of"Four Noes and One Without"."State-to-state relations" had originally been translated in English as “country-to-country relations” but theMainland Affairs Councilgot the translation changed to the less provocative option.

TheTaiwan Action Party Alliance,founded on 18 August 2019, incorporated One Country on Each Side into its Chinese-language name.

See also

• Four Wants and One Without
• Special non-state-to-state relations
• Two Chinas