Professors at Xiamen University’s Cross-Strait Institute of Urban Planning want to help the Chinese state prepare for post-conquest governance of Taiwan. The Republic of China is already being governed, but if China takes over, it will be governed even more.
The professors “acknowledged that the ‘one country, two systems’ [model]…which had been touted for the future of Taiwan, is no longer a viable policy. Instead, the institute recommends a rapid process of full integration” (“Chinese scholars urge Beijing to develop ‘shadow government’ for Taiwan,” Taiwan News, August 16, 2024).
In the wake of China’s shredding of the two-system system in Hong Kong, it’s getting harder to pull the wool over the eyes of the people of Taiwan. So the professors say flip to Plan B. China must get ready to integrate Taiwan now by setting up a shadow government.
The authors’ proposal includes establishing a Central Taiwan Work Committee in Beijing that “would act as a proto-provincial government for Taiwan that could be moved to Taipei after an invasion.”
Beyond simply appointing “shadow” officers and designing “shadow” agencies, the report advises a full-scale Taiwan Governance Experimental Zone in Fujian, which is already the host of the Cross-Strait Integration and Development Demonstration Zone.
Further, the report identifies two areas suitable for developing the administrative experience of a shadow Taiwan government: Xiamen’s Xiangan District and Nanan City in Quanzhou.
The authors stated that these two locations could reasonably simulate the geographical and social conditions in Taiwan for the shadow government to experiment with imposing new policies in a simulated Taiwan after the invasion.
According to the tyranny-tutoring professors, China needs to do all this planning to ensure a smooth post-conquest transition and also to recruit “anti-independence forces” to help subjugate post-conquest Taiwan.
Taiwan News says that although the Institute’s report was posted on its website in July, it has since been taken down. Maybe the Chinese Communist Party wasn’t too happy about the unceremonious ditching of the “one country, two systems” pretense.
