Huadu (Taiwan)
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Republic of China independence (Chinese: 中華民國獨立; pinyin: zhōnghuá mínguó dúlì), abbreviated in Chinese as Huadu (Chinese: 華獨; pinyin: huá dú; lit. 'Chinese independence')[1] is a stance on the status of Taiwan that posits Taiwan and its outlying islands are presently an independent state (i.e. a distinct sovereign state from the People's Republic of China) under the name "Republic of China". Huadu supporters reject the One China policy, instead positing that:
- There is a state of Taiwan whose formal name is the Republic of China for historical reasons, and/or;
- There are two Chinese states which coexist as part of a unitary nation, akin to the historical division of Germany or the current division of Korea
Taiwan is already a sovereign, independent country called the Republic of China.
—Lai Ching-te, 15 August 2023[2]
The Taiwanese nationalist movement is largely divided into Huadu, which favors retaining "China" as part of the Taiwanese state's formal name to maintain legal ambiguity over the political status of Taiwan; and Taidu (Chinese: 台獨; pinyin: tái dú), a syllabic abbreviation of "Taiwan independence" (Chinese: 台灣獨立; pinyin: táiwān dúlì) that proposes a more radical departure from the status quo by making a formal declaration of independence to create a de jure "Republic of Taiwan".[1] Huadu politics is generally favored by the moderate pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)[a] while more radical groups such as the Taiwan Statebuilding Party and Taiwan Solidarity Union favor a declaration of independence. DPP huadu supporters tend to see huadu politics as a pragmatic way to assert Taiwan's independence.
Huadu is currently the semi-official policy of the government of Taiwan/ROC, with the administration of President Lai Ching-te (from the DPP) holding that there already exists an independent Taiwanese state which is called the Republic of China or Taiwan interchangeably.[4] This was also the position of the Tsai Ing-wen[5] and Chen Shui-bian[6] governments.
Some politicians in the Kuomintang (KMT) party also support Huadu.[7] However, Huadu adherents in the KMT tend to see the ROC and PRC as two component states of a single Chinese nation, akin to North and South Korea or East and West Germany.
See also
- Status quo
- Taiwanization
- Two Chinas
- Johnny Chiang
- Four-Stage Theory of the Republic of China
- Taiwan independence movement#Support for status quo
Notes
References
- ^ a b "We're all pro-Taiwan independence now". Taiwan News. 16 January 2023. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
Broadly speaking, they are divided into two camps: "Taiwan" independence (台獨, taidu) and "Republic of China (ROC)" independence (華獨, huadu). The basic difference between the two is between renaming the country Taiwan or maintaining Taiwan as an independent nation under the ROC name and maintaining the constitution.
- ^ Wang, Cindy; Weber, Joel (15 August 2023). "Taiwan's Election Is All About War". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ^ Xiaokun Song (2009). Between Civic and Ethnic: The Transformation of Taiwanese Nationalist Ideologies (1895-2000). VUBPRESS. p. 199.
- ^ Nachmann, Lev. "No, Taiwan's President Isn't 'Pro-Independence'". The Diplomat. James Pach. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
- ^ "Full text of President Tsai's inaugural address". Central News Agency. May 20, 2016. Archived from the original on 19 May 2020. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ "Complete Interview with President Chen Shui-bian". New York Times. 18 October 2007. Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
- ^ "九二共識普拉斯（上）：國民黨內部曾提過「華獨」，為何最終沒有採用？". The News Lens (in Chinese). 27 April 2021. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
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