Beijing scholars map out Taiwan’s post-reunification governance, including force

Survey of academic papers points to a noticeable increase since 2019 in consideration of a ‘one country, two systems’ framework for the island

For decades, Beijing has talked about peaceful reunification with Taiwan and possibly governing it under the arrangement of “one country, two systems”, a term that means the island could have a different political system than the mainland.

The idea was first proposed by late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping and written into the constitution as a legal foundation for future governance of Taiwan in 1982.