Want China Times
Date: 2015-07-06
By: CNA

The still-to-be-confirmed presidential candidate for Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang, Hung

Hung Hsiu-chu speaks at an event held in Taipei to celebrate the upcoming 70th anniversary of the ROC’s victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War, July 5. (Photo/Lin Hou-chun)

Hsiu-chu, moved Sunday to clear up a quote she believes has been taken out of context, saying, “If the Republic of China does not exist, what does exist?”

In a TV interview on July 2, Hung was quoted by some media as saying that she could not talk about the existence of the Republic of China because talking about the ROC’s existence alongside the existence of the People’s Republic of China would be seen as advocating “two countries” inside a constitutionally stipulated “one China.”

Both the ROC Constitution and the PRC Constitution state that there is only one China. Controversy has centered around their overlapping sovereignty claims, as the PRC government claims sovereignty over Taiwan, an island it has never ruled, while the ROC includes the “mainland area” in a law governing relations between people on either side of the Taiwan Strait.     [FULL  STORY]