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Date: 2018/07/16

A proposal to replace the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)’s pro-Taiwan independence resolutions with a provision stressing the maintenance of cross-Strait status quo has been vetoed.

Several DPP lawmakers have been pushing for a new resolution based on President’s Tsai Ing-wen(蔡英文)’s emphasis on the need to maintain the status quo across the Taiwan Strait, a position she has maintained since coming to power in 2016 while declining to accept the so-called 1992 Consensus, which China’s government insists is the cornerstone of cross-Strait relations.

The DPP legislators argue that such a resolution is needed in order to update the party’s stance on the issue ahead of November’s local elections.

The cross-Strait clause would replace the DPP’s 1991 resolution calling for the party to push for “an autonomous Republic of Taiwan” independent of China and the 1999 Resolution on Taiwan’s Futurewhich states that Taiwan is already a “sovereign and independent country ” while calling for Taiwanese to determine the political future of the island via a plebiscite.
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