Pro-Taiwan camp
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Pro-Kuomintang camp
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| Supporting | Kuomintang |
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Chinese nationalism Liberalism Three Principles of the People |
| Political position | Centre-right |
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| District Councils |
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Pro-Taiwan camp or pro-Kuomintang camp (Chinese: 親台派 or 親國民黨派) is a political alignment in Hong Kong. It generally pledges allegiance to the Kuomintang-governed government of the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan (1949–2000 and 2008–16). Being called as "Rightists", it was one of the two major political forces in Hong Kong during the first decades of the post-war period of the British colony of Hong Kong, competing with the pro-Communist "Leftists", but has gradually declined after the Republic of China's departure from the United Nations in 1971 and the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984 which decided Hong Kong's sovereignty to be handed over to the People's Republic of China (PRC). Today, it generally aligned with the pan-democracy camp in Hong Kong and the Pan-Blue Coalition in Taiwan.
The pro-Taiwan camp closely follows the Kuomintang's doctrines including the Three Principles of the People and 1992 Consensus. It opposes Taiwan independence and supports universal suffrage in Hong Kong.
The support base of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) has existed even before the founding of the Republic of China (ROC), as its founding father Sun Yat-sen was a medical student in the British colony of Hong Kong in the late 19th century and set up anti-Qing revolutionary organisations in Hong Kong. After the founding of the Republic, Hong Kong pro-Nationalist forces remained their close contact with the Kuomintang revolutionary government in Canton. With the Canton's support, the pro-Nationalists and pro-Communists launched the 1922 Hong Kong Seamens' Strike and 1925 Canton–Hong Kong General Strike. In 1927, the pro-Nationalists gained their status as the Nationalist Party was the official government in China until 1949.
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