How ‘one country, two systems’ plays out in Hong Kong could factor into Taiwan’s 2020 elections.

The Washington Post
Date: September 4, 2019
By: Shelley Rigger

The recurrent protests in Hong Kong on the past 13 weekends suggest that the “one country, two systems” (OCTS) model offers no magic formula for blending incompatible political systems under a single flag. Hong Kong is watching closely — but so is Taiwan, the reason China conceived OCTS.

In January, Taiwan will hold presidential and legislative elections. With Taipei-Beijing relations at the center of the campaign, here’s how the unrest in Hong Kong may factor into these elections.

Hong Kong became a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1997, at the end of a 99-year lease to Britain. The Basic Law under which Beijing promised to govern Hong Kong is rooted in the OCTS model. It states that Hong Kong would be part of the PRC’s sovereign territory — but for 50 years would retain many of the features that differentiate it from what Hong Kongers call the “mainland.”

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