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https://scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1931221/light-todays-political-realties-beijing-needs-rethink-whatOpinion
In light of today’s political realities, Beijing needs to rethink what ‘one China’ really means
The ‘1992 consensus’ on Taiwan and the ‘two systems’ engineered for Hong Kong appear to have passed their use-by dates
Hung Hsiu-chu waves after winning the Kuomintang party chairman elections in Taipei. Photo: AFP
As the pro-China Hung Hsiu-chu was elected the first woman leader of the Kuomintang, Beijing sent a congratulatory message stressing the one-China principle.
Beijing can take consolation in that their woman in Taiwan might have lost – or rather ditched as a candidate at the last minute – in the January presidential election; she is now at least the leader of the “correct” political party.