Taiwan challenges the “one country, two systems” model

In Beijing

" Peace, parity, democracy and dialogue ". President Tsai Ing-wen laid down conditions for Greater China at the dawn of her second term as head of Taiwan on May 20, drawing a threatening response from the world's second power. This champion of the democratic identity of the rebel island opened the door to dialogue, but demanding respect from her historic rival, during her inauguration ceremony in Taipei.

" Both sides have a duty to find a way to coexist in the long term and prevent the intensification of antagonism, " said the 63-year-old leader, in the midst of escalating tensions, further reinforced by the Covid pandemic -19 and the Sino-American strategic showdown. " The Chinese have definitively lost Taiwan during the coronavirus crisis ," said Kerry Brown, a sinologist at King's College. Evoking a “ historic turning point ”, the leader of the Democratic Progressive Party, triumphantly re-elected in January on an affirmation program

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