Editing One China (section)

== Viewpoints within Taiwan ==
Within Taiwan, there is a distinction between the positions of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the [[Democratic Progressive Party]] (DPP).

The Kuomintang holds the "One-China principle" and maintains its claim that under the ROC Constitution (passed by the Kuomintang government in 1947 in [[Nanjing]]) the ROC has sovereignty over most of China, including, by their interpretation, both mainland China and Taiwan. After the [[Chinese Communist Party]] expelled the ROC in the Chinese Civil War from most of Chinese territory in 1949 and founded the PRC, the ROC's [[Kuomintang|Chinese Nationalist]] government, which still held Taiwan, continued to claim [[legitimacy (political)|legitimacy]] as the government of all of China. Under former President [[Lee Teng-hui]], additional articles were appended to the [[Constitution of the Republic of China|ROC constitution]] in 1991 so that it applied effectively only to the [[Taiwan Area]].<ref name="lee1999" /> The Kuomintang proclaims a modified form of the "One-China" principle known as the "[[1992 Consensus]]". Under this "consensus", both governments "agree" that there is only one single sovereign state encompassing both mainland China and Taiwan, but disagree about which of the two governments is the [[legitimacy (political)|legitimate]] government of this state. Former ROC President [[Ma Ying-jeou]] had re-asserted claims on mainland China as late as 8 October 2008.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ma refers to China as ROC territory in magazine interview|newspaper=Taipei Times|date=8 October 2008|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/10/08/2003425320|access-date=8 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603213128/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/10/08/2003425320|archive-date=3 June 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Democratic Progressive Party]] rejects the One China principle, and its official position currently is that Taiwan is an independent and sovereign country whose territory consists of Taiwan and its surrounding smaller islands and whose sovereignty derives only from the ROC citizens living in Taiwan (similar to the philosophy of [[self-determination]]), based on the 1999 "[[Resolution on Taiwan's Future]]". It considers Taiwan as an independent nation under the name of Republic of China, making a formal declaration of independence unnecessary.<ref name="resolution">{{cite web |title=DPP Party Convention |url=http://www.taiwandc.org/nws-9920.htm |access-date=18 December 2020 |archive-date=10 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610173456/http://www.taiwandc.org/nws-9920.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>  Though calls for drafting a new constitution and a declaration of a Republic of Taiwan was written into the party charter in 1991,<ref name="1991article">{{cite journal |author1-link=Dafydd Fell |last1=Fell |first1=Dafydd |title=Measuring and Explaining Party Change in Taiwan: 1991–2004 |journal=Journal of East Asian Studies |date=2005 |volume=5 |issue=1 |page=112 |doi=10.1017/S1598240800006275 |jstor=23417889 |s2cid=153572606 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23417889 |access-date=18 December 2020 |archive-date=2 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402125514/https://www.jstor.org/stable/23417889 |url-status=live }}</ref> the 1999 resolution has practically superseded the earlier charter.<ref name="92c">{{cite web |title=DPP denies existence of '1992 consensus' |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2010/12/25/2003491835 |website=[[Taipei Times]] |date=25 December 2010 |access-date=18 December 2020 |archive-date=2 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802211135/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2010/12/25/2003491835 |url-status=live }}</ref>
  
At least one observer of the [[Taiwan independence movement]] believes it runs counter to the PRC's sovereignty claims over Taiwan.<ref>{{Cite news |title='Taiwan Independence' Doesn't Mean What You Think |newspaper=Foreign Policy |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/11/taiwan-independence-china-republic-huadu-taidu/ |access-date=2024-05-30 |issn=1945-2276 |archive-date=12 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412030159/http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/11/taiwan-independence-china-republic-huadu-taidu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A [[Brookings Institution]] survey indicates that while Taiwan people overwhelmingly reject unification with the PRC, the vast majority do not support immediate formal independence of a Republic of Taiwan.<ref>{{cite news |title=Why is unification so unpopular in Taiwan? It's the PRC political system, not just culture |url=https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-is-unification-so-unpopular-in-taiwan-its-the-prc-political-system-not-just-culture/ |access-date=30 May 2024 |work=Brookings Institution |date=7 Feb 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514174054/https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-is-unification-so-unpopular-in-taiwan-its-the-prc-political-system-not-just-culture/ |archive-date=14 May 2024}}</ref>