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The '''Three Principles of the People''' ({{Lang-zh|t=三民主義|p=Sānmín Zhǔyì}}), also known as the '''Three People's Principles''', '''San-min Doctrine''', '''San Min Chu-i''', or '''Tridemism'''<ref>Stéphane Corcuff, Robert Edmondson [https://books.google.com/books?id=vFy3J2PyEAoC&pg=PA77 ''Memories of the Future: National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124220920/https://books.google.com/books?id=vFy3J2PyEAoC&pg=PA77 |date=24 January 2023 }} p. 77. {{ISBN|0765607921}}</ref> is a [[political philosophy]] developed by [[Sun Yat-sen]] as part of a philosophy to improve [[Republic of China|China]] during the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republican Era]]. The three principles are often translated into and summarized as nationalism, democracy, and the livelihood of the people (or welfarism). This philosophy has been claimed as the cornerstone of the nation's policy as carried by the [[Kuomintang]]; the principles also appear in the first line of the [[national anthem of the Republic of China]].

==Origins==
[[File:The organ of Tongmen Hui.png|thumb|left|The concept first appearing in the newspaper ''Min Bao'' in 1905 appearing as "Three Major Principles" (三大主義) instead of "Three Principles of the People" (三民主義).]]

When the [[Revive China Society]] was formed in 1894, Sun only had two principles: nationalism and democracy. He picked up the third idea, welfare, during his three-year trip to [[Europe]] from 1896 to 1898.<ref name="Li">Li Chien-Nung, translated by Teng, Ssu-yu, Jeremy Ingalls. ''The political history of China, 1840–1928''. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1956; rpr. Stanford University Press. {{ISBN|0-8047-0602-6}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8047-0602-5}}. pp. 203–206.</ref> He announced all three ideas in the spring of 1905, during another trip to Europe. Sun made the first speech of his life on the "Three Principles of the People" in [[Brussels]].<ref name="Sharman">{{Cite book  | last1 = Sharman| first1 = Lyon| title = Sun Yat-sen: His life and its meaning, a critical biography | year = 1968 | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford| pages = 94, 271 }}</ref> He was able to organize the Revive China Society in many European cities. There were about 30 members in the Brussels branch at the time, 20 in [[Berlin]], and 10 in [[Paris]].<ref name="Sharman" /> After the [[Tongmenghui]] was formed, Sun published an editorial in ''Min Bao'' (民報).<ref name="Li" />  This was the first time the ideas were expressed in writing. Later on, in the anniversary issue of ''Min Bao'', his long speech of the Three Principles was printed, and the editors of the newspaper discussed the issue of people's livelihood.<ref name="Li" />

The ideology is said to be heavily influenced by Sun's experiences in the [[United States]] and contains elements of the [[Progressivism in the United States|American progressive movement]] and the thought championed by [[Abraham Lincoln]]. Sun credited a line from Lincoln's [[Gettysburg Address]], "government [[of the people, by the people, for the people]]", as an inspiration for the Three Principles.<ref name="Sharman" /> Sun's Three Principles of the People are inter-connected as the guideline for China's modernization development as stretched by [[Hu Hanmin]].<ref name="pccu">{{cite web|url=http://ap6.pccu.edu.tw/Encyclopedia/data.asp?id=238|title=+{中華百科全書‧典藏版}+|publisher=ap6.pccu.edu.tw|access-date=24 December 2015}}</ref>

==The Principles==
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===''Mínzú'' or Nationalism===
Because "[[Minzu (anthropology)|Mínzú]]" or "People" describes a nation rather than a group of persons united by a purpose, the 'Principle of Mínzú' ({{Lang-zh|t=民族主義|p=Mínzú Zhǔyì}}) is commonly rendered as "[[nationalism]]".

==== National Independence ====
Sun saw the Chinese Nation as under threat of annihilation by the imperialist powers.<ref>{{Cite wikisource|title=三民主义|wslanguage=zh|chapter=民族主義第五講}}</ref> To reverse the trajectory of such decline, China needed to become nationally independent both externally and internally.

Internally, national independence meant independence from the [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] [[Manchu people|Manchus]] who ruled China for centuries.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=三民主义与五权分立——在东京《民报》创刊周年庆祝大会的演说 – 主要著述 – 孙中山故居纪念馆_伟人孙中山 |url=http://www.sunyat-sen.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=46&id=6675 |access-date=9 April 2022 |website=www.sunyat-sen.org |archive-date=2 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502230704/http://www.sunyat-sen.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=46&id=6675 |url-status=live }}</ref> Sun thought that the Han Chinese people were a people without their own nation and thus strove for national revolution against Qing authorities.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Ling |first=Yu-long |date=2012 |title=Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Doctrine and Impact on the Modern World |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44288973 |journal=American Journal of Chinese Studies |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=1–11 |jstor=44288973 |issn=2166-0042 |access-date=9 April 2022 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409185400/https://www.jstor.org/stable/44288973 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Externally, national independence meant independence from imperialist foreign powers. Sun believed China to be threatened by imperialism in three ways: by economic oppression, by political aggression, and by slow population growth.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Weaver |first=William C. |date=1939 |title=The Social, Economic, and Political Philosophy of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24435880 |journal=The Historian |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=132–141 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.1939.tb00469.x |jstor=24435880 |issn=0018-2370 |access-date=9 April 2022 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409185402/https://www.jstor.org/stable/24435880 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Economically, Sun held the [[Mercantilism|mercantilist]] position that China was being economically exploited by [[Balance of trade|unbalanced trade]] and [[tariff]]s.<ref name=":2" /> Politically, he looked toward the [[Unequal treaty|unequal treaties]] signed by China as the reason of China's decline. Sun envisioned a future China that was strong and capable of fighting imperialists and standing on the same stage as western powers.<ref name=":1" />

==== Five Races Under One Union ====
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Although Sun initially believed in a form of [[Han nationalism]] to oppose the rule of the Qing dynasty, he later came to accept [[Liang Qichao]]’s multi-ethnic nationalist idea of a unified Chinese nation. To achieve "national independence", Sun believed that China must first develop a "[[Chinese nationalism|China-nationalism]]," ''[[Zhonghua Minzu]]'', as opposed to an [[Ethnic nationalism|mono-ethnic nationalism]]. Sun developed the principles of [[Five Races Under One Union]] to unite the five major ethnic groups of China—[[Han Chinese|Han]], [[Mongols in China|Mongols]], [[Tibetans]], [[Manchus]], and the [[Islam in China|Muslims]] (such as the [[Uyghurs]])—under one "Chinese Nation". This principle is symbolized by the [[Five Races Under One Union|Five Color Flag]] of the [[Beiyang government|First Republic of China (1911–1928)]]. He believed that China must develop a "national consciousness" so as to unite the Chinese people in the face of imperialist aggression. He argued that "minzu", which can be translated as "people", "nationality", or "race", was defined by sharing common blood, livelihood, religion, language, and customs. Sun also believed in a form of [[interculturalism]] that assimilated ethnic minorities into the dominant Han culture by a process of naturalization, rather than through brute force.

==== Cultural conservatism ====
The Three Principles of the People were partly related to [[cultural conservatism]] (文化保守主義) to defend the virtues of Chinese culture against Western imperialism, while embracing some of the modern elements. Sun Yat-sen defended socialism, but distanced himself from dogmatic [[Marxism]]. He criticized young people's obsession with Western-style Marxism and saw that similar ideas could be found in Chinese classics. Also, Sun embraced modernism, but at the same time highlighted a positive part of [[Chinese tradition]].

===''Mínquán'' or Governance Rights===
The framing of '[[Democracy in China|democracy]]' ({{Lang-zh|t=民權主義|p=Mínquán Zhǔyì|l=Principle of people's right}}) in the Three Principles of the People differs from the typical Western view democracy, being based in Liang's interpretation of [[General will]], which prioritizes the power of the group over individual freedoms.<ref name=":17">{{Cite book |last=Crean |first=Jeffrey |title=The Fear of Chinese Power: an International History |date=2024 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Academic]] |isbn=978-1-350-23394-2 |edition= |series=New Approaches to International History series |location=London, UK}}</ref>{{Rp|page=54}} Sun viewed traditional Chinese society as too individualistic and stated that individual liberty must be broken down so that the Chinese people could pressed together, using the metaphor of adding cement to sand.<ref name=":17" />{{Rp|page=54}}

==== Four Rights of the People ====
The power of politics ({{Lang-zh|c=政權|p=zhèngquán}}) are the powers of the people to express their political wishes and keep administrative officers in check, similar to those vested in the citizenry or the parliaments in other countries, and is represented by the [[National Assembly of the Republic of China|National Assembly]]. The power of the people is guaranteed by four constitutional rights: the right to [[election]] (選舉), [[recall election|recalling]] (罷免), [[Popular initiative|initiative]] (創制), and [[referendum]] (複決).<ref>{{Cite wikisource|title=三民主義|wslanguage=zh|chapter=民权主義第五講}}</ref> These may be equated to "[[civil rights]]".

==== Five Power Constitution ====
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The power of governance ({{Lang-zh|c=治權|p=zhìquán}}) are the powers of the administration to govern the people. He criticized the traditional [[Separation of powers|three-branch democratic government]] for vesting too much power in the legislative branch.<ref name=":0" /> He expanded and reworked the European-American [[Three powers of the State|three-branch government]] and the system of [[Separation of powers#Checks and balances|checks and balances]] by incorporating traditional Chinese administrative systems to create a government of five branches (each of which is called a Yuan ({{Lang-zh|c=院|p=yuàn|l=court}})) in a system known as the Five Power Constitution.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Five-Power Constitution {{!}} Chinese government {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Five-Power-Constitution |access-date=9 April 2022 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en |archive-date=26 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626050015/https://www.britannica.com/event/Five-Power-Constitution |url-status=live }}</ref> The state is divided into five "Yuan"s: [[Legislative Yuan]], the [[Executive Yuan]], and the [[Judicial Yuan]] came from [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]]an thought; the [[Control Yuan]] and the [[Examination Yuan]] came from Chinese tradition.<ref name=":1" /> (Note that the Legislative Yuan was first intended as a branch of governance, not strictly equivalent to a national parliament.)

===''Mínshēng'' or Welfare Rights===
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The Principle of Mínshēng ({{Lang-zh|t=民生主義|p=Mínshēng Zhǔyì|l=Principle of people's welfare/livelihood}}) is sometimes translated as "[Principle of] Government for the People" or "[[Socialist ideology of the Kuomintang|Socialism]]". The concept may be understood as [[social welfare]] and as a direct criticism of the inadequacies of unregulated [[capitalism]]. He divided livelihood into four areas: clothing, food, housing, and mobility; and planned out how an ideal (Chinese) government can take care of these for its people.

==== Equalization of Land Rights ====
{{See also|Georgism|Land reform in Taiwan}}

Sun was influenced by the American thinker [[Henry George]] and intended to introduce a [[Georgist]] tax reform.<ref>{{cite book|last=Trescott|first=Paul B.|title=Jingji Xue: The History of the Introduction of Western Economic Ideas Into China, 1850–1950|year=2007|publisher=Chinese University Press|pages=46–48|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RkJtJm9L7mQC&pg=PA48 |quote=The teachings of your single-taxer, Henry George, will be the basis of our program of reform.|isbn=9789629962425}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schiffrin |first=Harold |date=1957 |title=Sun Yat-sen's Early Land Policy: The Origin and Meaning of "Equalization of Land Rights" |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=549–564 |doi=10.2307/2941638 |jstor=2941638 |s2cid=164082381 |issn=0021-9118 |doi-access=free }}</ref> The [[land value tax]] in Taiwan is a legacy thereof. Sun said that "[land value tax] as the only means of supporting the government is an infinitely just, reasonable, and equitably distributed tax, and on it we will found our new system."<ref>Post, Louis Freeland (12 April 1912). "Sun Yat Sen's Economic Program for China". The Public. 15: 349. Retrieved 8 November 2016.</ref>

Sun proposed a land reform system known as "equalization of land rights", which involves the implementation of four different acts: regulation of land price, in which each landowner reports the value of their property sans improvement; taxation of land, which involves a [[land value tax]] set on all land properties; purchase of land, which sets up a system where government can purchase land for public use by [[eminent domain]]; and profit belongs to the public, in which a 100% tax is levied on all profit gained from trading of land (sans improvement). According to Sun, the existence of land purchase and land taxation guarantees that landowner wouldn't over-report (which would lead to high taxation on land) nor under-report (which would lead to their land being cheaply acquired for eminent domain) their land values.<ref>{{Cite wikisource|title=三民主义|wslanguage=zh|chapter=民生主義第二講}}</ref>

However, the [[Kuomintang]] failed to achieve any successful land reform Sun envisioned in mainland China and only succeeded in [[Land reform in Taiwan|Taiwan]].

==== Impact ====
Sun died before he was able to fully explain his vision of this Principle and it has been the subject of much debate within both the Chinese Nationalist and Communist Parties, with the latter suggesting that Sun supported [[socialism]]. [[Chiang Kai-shek]] further elaborated the Mínshēng principle of both the importance of social well-being and recreational activities for a modernized China in 1953 in Taiwan.<ref name="naer">{{cite web|url=http://terms.naer.edu.tw/detail/1304097/?index=1|title=〔民生主義育樂兩篇補述〕|publisher=terms.naer.edu.tw|access-date=24 December 2015|archive-date=24 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224163934/http://terms.naer.edu.tw/detail/1304097/?index=1|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Canon==
[[File:李鐵夫孫中山12345.jpg| thumb |"Portrait of Sun Yat-sen" (1921) [[Li Tiefu]] Oil on Canvas 93×71.7cm]]
The most definite (canonical) exposition of these principles was a book compiled from notes of speeches that Sun gave near [[Guangzhou]] (taken by a colleague, Huang Changgu, in consultation with Sun), and therefore is open to interpretation by various parties and interest groups (see below) and may not have been as fully explicated as Sun might have wished. Indeed, [[Chiang Kai-shek]] supplied an annex to the Principle of Mínshēng, covering two additional areas of livelihood: education, land, and leisure, and explicitly arguing that Mínshēng was not to be seen as supporting either [[communism]] or [[socialism]].
The French historian of Chinese history, Marie-Claire Bergère's view is that the book is a work of propaganda. Its purpose is to appeal to action rather than to thought. As Sun Yat-sen declared, a principle is not simply an idea; it is "a faith, a power."<ref>{{Cite book  | last1 = Bergère | first1 = Marie-Claire (translated by Janet Lloyd) | title = Sun Yat-sen | year = 1994 | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford | isbn = 0-8047-3170-5 | page = 353 }}</ref>

==Legacy==
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[[File:Three Principles of the People Unites China.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"The Three Principles of the People unify China"{{snd}}a sign on [[Dadan Island]], near [[Kinmen]] (Quemoy), facing [[mainland China]]]]
The Three Principles of the People were claimed as the basis for the ideologies of the [[Kuomintang]] under [[Chiang Kai-shek]], the [[Reorganized National Government of China]] under [[Wang Jingwei]], and an inspiration of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] under [[Mao Zedong]] as the stage of ‘old democracy’. The Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party largely agreed on the meaning of [[nationalism]] but differed sharply on the meaning of democracy and people's welfare, which the former saw in Western social democratic terms and the latter interpreted in Marxist and communist terms. The Japanese collaborationist government interpreted nationalism less in terms of anti-imperialism and more in terms of cooperating with Japan to advance theoretically [[Pan-Asianism|pan-Asian]], but in practice, typically Japanese interests.

===Republic of China and Taiwan===
{{See also|Grand Alliance for China's Reunification under the Three Principles of the People}}
During the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]]'s [[Nanjing decade|Nanjing period]], the KMT developed a national censorship apparatus as part of its "Arts of the Three Principles of the People" cultural campaign.<ref name=":Laikwan">{{Cite book |last=Laikwan |first=Pang |title=One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty |date=2024 |publisher=[[Stanford University Press]] |isbn=9781503638815 |location=Stanford, CA}}</ref>{{Rp|page=121}} This program sought to censor cultural products deemed unwelcomed by the KMT, such as works by left-wing artists or writers.<ref name=":Laikwan" />{{Rp|page=|pages=121–122}}

There were several [[higher education|higher-education]] institutes (university departments/faculties and [[graduate school|graduate institute]]s) in Taiwan that used to devote themselves to the 'research and development' of the Three Principles in this aspect. Since the late 1990s, these institutes have re-oriented themselves so that other political theories are also admitted as worthy of consideration, and have changed their names to be more ideologically neutral (such as Democratic Studies Institute).

In addition to this institutional phenomenon, many streets and businesses in Taiwan are named "Sān-mín" or for one of the three principles. In contrast to other politically derived street names, there has been no major renaming of these streets or institutions in the 1990s.

Although the term "Sanmin Zhuyi" (三民主義) has been less explicitly invoked since the mid-1980s, no political party has explicitly attacked its principles with practices under the [[Martial Law]] [[Martial law in Taiwan|ruling era]] then except the [[Tangwai movement]] groups such as [[Democratic Progressive Party]]. The Three Principles of the People remains explicitly part of the platform of the Kuomintang and in the [[Constitution of the Republic of China]].

As for [[Taiwan independence]] supporters, some have objections regarding the formal constitutional commitment to a particular set of political principles. Also, they have been against the mandatory indoctrination in schools and universities, which have now been abolished in a piecemeal fashion beginning in the late 1990s. However, there is little fundamental hostility to the substantive principles themselves. In these circles, attitudes toward the Three Principles of the People span the spectrum from indifference to reinterpreting the Three Principles of the People [[Taiwanese localization movement|in a local Taiwanese context]] rather than in a pan-Chinese one.

=== People's Republic of China ===
The '''Three Principles of the People''' has been reinterpreted by the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP) to argue that communism is a necessary conclusion of the Three Principles of the People and thus provides legitimacy for the communist government. This reinterpretation of the Three Principles of the People is commonly referred to as the '''New Three Principles of the People''' ({{Zh|c=新三民主义}}, also translated as '''Neo-tridemism'''), a word coined by Mao's 1940 essay ''[[On New Democracy]],'' in which he argued that the CCP is a better enforcer of the Three Principles of the People compared to the bourgeois [[Kuomintang|Nationalist Party]] and that the new three principles are about allying with the communists and the Russians (Soviets), and supporting peasants and the workers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mao |first=Zedong |title=On New Democracy |url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_26.htm |access-date=7 May 2022 |website=www.marxists.org |archive-date=9 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109212043/https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_26.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Proponents of the New Three Principles of the People often claim that Sun's book ''Three Principles of the People'' acknowledges that the principles of welfare is inherently socialistic and communistic.<ref>{{Cite wikisource|title=三民主义|wslanguage=zh|chapter=民生主义第一讲}}</ref>

In response to a question from a [[Reuters]] reporter in 1945, [[Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party|CCP chairman]] [[Mao Zedong]] said: "A free and democratic China will be a country in which all levels of government up to the central government are elected by universal, equal, secret suffrage and are accountable to the people who elected them. It would realize Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People, Lincoln's principles of government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and Roosevelt's [[Four Freedoms]]. It will guarantee the country's independence, unity, unification and cooperation with the democratic powers."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-02-12 |title=What Chairman Mao wrote about a ‘free and democratic China’ |url=https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/2185677/china-doesnt-need-democracy-mao-may-have-begged-differ |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=[[South China Morning Post]] |language=en}}</ref>

===Vietnam===
The [[Vietnam Revolutionary League]] was a union of various Vietnamese nationalist groups, run by the pro-Chinese [[Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng]]. The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng translates directly into Vietnamese Kuomintang (or the Vietnamese Nationalist Party", and it was largely a resemble of the original Chinese Kuomintang party. Its stated goal was for unity with China under the Three Principles of the People, and opposition to Japanese and French imperialists.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/endlesswarvietna00harr|url-access=registration|quote=Chang Fa-Kuei vnqdd.|title=The endless war: Vietnam's struggle for independence|author=James P. Harrison|year=1989|publisher=Columbia University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/endlesswarvietna00harr/page/81 81]|isbn=0-231-06909-X|access-date=30 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uEDfAAAAMAAJ&q=Chang+Fa-Kuei+vnqdd|title=The History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: History of the Indochina incident, 1940-1954|author=United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Historical Division|year=1982|publisher=Michael Glazier|page=56|isbn=9780894532870|access-date=30 November 2010|archive-date=2 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402121811/https://books.google.com/books?id=uEDfAAAAMAAJ&q=Chang+Fa-Kuei+vnqdd|url-status=live}}</ref> The Revolutionary League was controlled by [[Nguyễn Hải Thần]], who was born in [[Northern Vietnam]]. General [[Zhang Fakui]] blocked the Communists of Vietnam, and [[Ho Chi Minh]] from entering the league, as his main goal was Chinese influence in Indochina.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9RorGHF0fGIC&q=Chang+Fa-Kuei+vnqdd&pg=PA106|title=The last emperors of Vietnam: from Tu Duc to Bao Dai|author=Oscar Chapuis|year=2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|page=106|isbn=0-313-31170-6|access-date=30 November 2010}}</ref> The KMT utilized these Vietnamese nationalists during World War II against Japanese forces.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HKRuAAAAMAAJ&q=Chang+Fa-Kuei+vnqdd|title=The rise of nationalism in Vietnam, 1900–1941|author=William J. Duiker|year=1976|publisher=Cornell University Press|page=272|isbn=0-8014-0951-9|access-date=30 November 2010|archive-date=2 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402121815/https://books.google.com/books?id=HKRuAAAAMAAJ&q=Chang+Fa-Kuei+vnqdd|url-status=live}}</ref>

The motto of Independence - Freedom - Happiness of the [[Democratic Republic of Vietnam]] and the [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam]], despite its communist political background, was also taken from the Three Principles of People.

===Tibet===
The pro-Kuomintang and pro-ROC [[Kham]]ba revolutionary leader [[Pandatsang Rapga]], who established the [[Tibet Improvement Party]], adopted Dr. Sun's ideology including the Three Principles, incorporating them into his party and using Sun's doctrine as a model for his vision of Tibet after achieving his goal of overthrowing the Tibetan government.

Pandatsang Rapga hailed the Three Principles for helping Asian peoples against foreign imperialism and called for the feudal system to be overthrown. Rapga stated that "The Sanmin Zhuyi was intended for all peoples under the domination of foreigners, for all those who had been deprived of the rights of man. But it was conceived especially for the Asians. It is for this reason that I translated it. At that time, a lot of new ideas were spreading in Tibet", during an interview in 1975 with Heather Stoddard.<ref>{{cite book|access-date=27 December 2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlOEi9C4T3QC&pg=PA152|title=Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China|author=Gray Tuttle|year=2007|publisher=Columbia University Press|edition=illustrated|page=152|isbn=978-0-231-13447-7|archive-date=17 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117115250/https://books.google.com/books?id=KlOEi9C4T3QC&pg=PA152|url-status=live}}</ref> Sun's ideology was put into a Tibetan translation by Rapga.<ref>{{cite book|access-date=27 December 2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Upwq0I-wm7YC&q=rapga+chinese&pg=PA450|title=A history of modern Tibet, 1913–1951: the demise of the Lamaist state|author=Melvyn C. Goldstein|year=1991|publisher=University of California Press|edition=reprint, illustrated|volume=1 of A History of Modern Tibet|page=450|isbn=0-520-07590-0}}</ref> <!--{{zh|t=西藏自治共和國|p=Xīzàng zìzhì gònghéguó}}) -->

He believed that change in Tibet would only be possible in a manner similar to when the [[Qing dynasty]] was overthrown in China. He borrowed the theories and ideas of the Kuomintang as the basis for his model for Tibet. The party was funded by the Kuomintang<ref>{{cite book|access-date=27 December 2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rsLQdBUgyMUC&q=shen+in+Chongqing+to+render+clandestine+support+to+pro-Nationalist+underground+forces+led+by+a+Khampa+Tibetan&pg=PA95|title=Modern China's ethnic frontiers: a journey to the west|author1-link=Lin Hsiao-ting|author=Hsiao-ting Lin|year=2010|publisher=Taylor & Francis|edition=illustrated|volume=67 of Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia|page=95|isbn=978-0-415-58264-3|archive-date=11 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411192239/https://books.google.com/books?id=rsLQdBUgyMUC&q=shen+in+Chongqing+to+render+clandestine+support+to+pro-Nationalist+underground+forces+led+by+a+Khampa+Tibetan&pg=PA95|url-status=live}}</ref> and by the Pandatsang family.

===Singapore===
The establishment of the [[People's Power Party (Singapore)|People's Power Party]] in May 2015 by opposition politician [[Goh Meng Seng]] marks the first time in contemporary [[Singapore]]an politics that a political party was formed with the Three Principles of the People and its system of having five branches of government as espoused by Sun Yat-Sen as its official guiding ideology.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/05/19/goh-submits-application-to-set-up-peoples-power-party/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520233943/http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/05/19/goh-submits-application-to-set-up-peoples-power-party/|archive-date=20 May 2015|title=Goh submits application to set up People's Power Party
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The People's Power Party has adapted the ideas with a slight modification to the concepts of the Five Powers in order to stay relevant to modern contemporary political and social structures. The emphasis is put on the separation of the Five Powers which naturally means the separation of certain institutions from the Executive's control.

The power of impeachment (originally under the Control Yuan) has been expanded to include various contemporary functional government institutions. Examples include the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, advocacy of the Ombudsman Commission, Equal Opportunity Commission, [[freedom of the press]] and [[freedom of speech]].

The power of examination has been adapted and modified to fit the modern concept of selection for both political leaders as well as civil servants. This involves institutions like the Elections Department and Public Service Commission.

The People's Power Party advocates that the institutions included in these two powers, namely the power of impeachment and the power of selection, be put under the supervision of Singapore's elected president.<ref name="facebook">{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/peoplespowerpartysg/info?tab=page_info|title=People's Power Party – PPP|publisher=facebook.com|access-date=24 December 2015|archive-date=27 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027072236/https://www.facebook.com/peoplespowerpartysg/info?tab=page_info|url-status=live}}</ref>

==See also==
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* [[Five Races Under One Union]]
* ''[[Zhonghua minzu]]''
* [[Grand Alliance for China's Reunification under the Three Principles of the People]]
* [[Constitution of the Republic of China]]
* [[Democracy in China]]
* [[History of the Republic of China]]
* [[National Anthem of Taiwan]]
* [[Republic of China (1912–1949)]]
* [[Politics of the Republic of China]]
* [[Three Principles of the Equality]]
* [[Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence]]
* [[Chiangism]]
* [[Dai Jitao Thought]]

== References ==
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==Bibliography==
*[[Sun Yat-sen]], translated by Pasquale d'Elia.''The Triple Demism of Sun Yat-Sen''. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1974.

==External links==
* [http://chinese.larouchepub.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/San-Min-Chu-I_ALL-en.pdf The Three Principles of the People (1924) by Sun Yat-Sen]

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