Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/08/20
By: Emerson Lim

Taipei, Aug. 20 (CNA) The developments in Hong Kong in recent months have shown that democracy

and authoritarianism cannot exist side by side, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said Tuesday.

That is why Taiwan rejects the "one country, two systems" model proposed by Beijing as a solution to cross-Taiwan Strait issues, Tsai said during the 2019 Asia-Pacific Security Dialogue in Taipei.

"Yet, China refuses to renounce the use of force against Taiwan, and continues to seek to impose its 'one country, two systems' model on us," she said. "But I want to be very clear: Hong Kong's example has proven once and for all that democracy and authoritarianism cannot coexist."

The "one country, two systems" system of government, introduced in the 1980s by then-Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping (鄧小平), has been in effect in Hong Kong since it was handed back to China by the United Kingdom in 1997.    [FULL  STORY]