1992 Consensus
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| Traditional Chinese | 九二共識 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 九二共识 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Nine-Two Consensus | ||||||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Jiŭ-Èr Gòngshì |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | gau2 ji6 gung6 sik1 |
The "1992 Consensus" or "Consensus of 1992" is a political term referring to the outcome of a meeting in 1992 between the semi-official representatives of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in mainland China and the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The Kuomintang (KMT) of the ROC says that the consensus exists, while the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of ROC and the President of ROC in 1992, Lee Teng-hui, deny the existence of the 1992 consensus. The term, as described by some observers, means that, on the subject of the "One China principle", both sides recognise there is only one "China": both mainland China and Taiwan belong to the same China, but both sides agree to interpret the meaning of that one China according to their own definition.
Critics of the term, including Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), point out that because there was no agreement on the meaning and mutual understanding of China and which government, ROC or PRC, represents "China", it was not a "consensus" at all. They also criticise the term on the basis that it was not created contemporaneously with the meeting: according to former National Security Council secretary-general Su Chi, he invented the term in 2000, eight years after the 1992 meetings.
The PRC's position is that there is one, undivided sovereignty of China, and that the PRC is the sole legitimate representative of that sovereignty. The ROC's Kuomintang's position is that there is one, undivided sovereignty of China, and that the ROC is the sole legitimate representative of that sovereignty. The ROC's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) position is that it recognizes the PRC as a country and therefore there is now one country on each side, and each is a sovereign nation.
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