View source for One Country on Each Side

{{Short description|Notion in Taiwan-China relations}}[[File:Two Chinas.svg|325px|thumb|
 {{unbulleted list
  | '''The [[One China|One China policy]] in practice.'''
{{legend|#ff0000|[[China|People's Republic of China]] (PRC).}}
{{legend|#0052ff|[[Taiwan|Republic of China]] (ROC).}}
{{legend|#e9921d|Countries recognizing the PRC only.}}
{{legend|#5fadff|Countries recognizing the ROC only.}}
{{legend|#cdcd9c|Countries recognizing the PRC, but have semi-formal relations with the ROC.}}
{{legend|#b9b9b9|Countries without reported relations with either the PRC or the ROC.}}
 }}
]]
{{Chinese
|t=一邊一國
|s=一边一国
|p=Yī biān yī guó
|poj=Chi̍t Pêng Chi̍t Kok
}}

[[File:臺灣, 中國, 一邊一國 One Country on Each Side, TAIWAN and China are Two Different Sovereign States.jpg|thumb|Banner during a 2012 rally in Taipei. Translation: "Our Taiwan is not China. Taiwan and China, one country on each side."]]

'''One Country on Each Side''' is a concept articulated in the [[Democratic Progressive Party]] government led by [[Chen Shui-bian]], the former [[president of the Republic of China]] (2000–2008), regarding the [[political status of Taiwan]]. It emphasizes that the [[China|People's Republic of China]] and the [[Republic of China]] (or alternatively, [[Taiwan]] itself) are two different countries, (namely "'''One China, one Taiwan'''"), as opposed to [[Two Chinas|two separate political entities]] within the same country of "[[One-China policy|China]]".  This is the position of the supporters of the [[Pan-Green coalition]].

==History==
In [[Peng Ming-min]]'s 1964 {{ill|Declaration of Formosan Self-Salvation|zh|台灣自救運動宣言|wikidata|Q10915671}}, it was stated that "One China, one Taiwan" had been an ironclad fact ({{lang|zh-TW|「一個中國，一個台灣」早已是鐵一般的事實}}).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2004/09/19/2003203497|title=Learning from Peng's declaration - Taipei Times|date=September 19, 2004|website=www.taipeitimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.economist.com/obituary/2022/04/21/peng-ming-min-fought-for-the-idea-of-one-china-and-one-formosa|title=Peng Ming-min fought for the idea of “one China and one Formosa”|via=The Economist}}</ref> The same concept “'''One China, One Formosa'''” was presented in [[Chen Lung-chu]] and [[Harold Lasswell]]’s book-length proposal in 1967 — ''Formosa, China and the United Nations: Formosa in the World Community''.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/fac_books/55|title=Formosa, China and the United Nations: Formosa in the World Community|first1=Lung-chu|last1=Chen|first2=Harold|last2=Lasswell|date=January 1, 1967|journal=Books}}</ref>

Chen used this phrase in an August 3, 2002, telecast to the annual conference of the [[World Federation of Taiwanese Associations]] meeting in Tokyo when he stated that it needs to be clear that "with Taiwan and China on each side of the [[Taiwan Strait]], each side is a country."<ref>{{cite web |title=Extracted text of the telecast relating to cross-strait relations |publisher=Mainland Affairs Council of Republic of China |date=2002-08-03 |url=http://www.mac.gov.tw/big5/mlpolicy/refer92/1_22.htm |language=zh |script-quote=zh:台灣不是別人的一部分；不是別人的地方政府、別人的一省 |access-date=2008-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041217222641/http://www.mac.gov.tw/big5/mlpolicy/refer92/1_22.htm |archive-date=2004-12-17 |url-status=dead }} (''Táiwān búshi biéren de yībùfèn; búshi biéren de dìfāng zhèngfǔ, biéren de yī shěng'')</ref> His statements were made in [[Taiwanese Minnan]] as opposed to [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] and drew a barrage of criticism from the [[Media in mainland China|mainland Chinese press]], which had previously shied away from the types of attacks it gave to [[Lee Teng-hui]], who promoted a similar "{{ill|special state-to-state relations|lt=|zh|特殊的國與國關係}}". The United States also expressed serious concerns over this concept, as the U.S. felt that this concept appeared to have departed from Chen's earlier pledge of "[[Four Noes and One Without]]".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.taiwandc.org/wp-2003-04.htm|title=Taiwanese Leader Condemns Beijing, 'One China' Policy|website=www.taiwandc.org}}</ref> "State-to-state relations" had originally been translated in English as “country-to-country relations” but the [[Mainland Affairs Council]] got the translation changed to the less provocative option.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Baron |first1=James |title=The Glorious Contradictions of Lee Teng-hui |url=https://thediplomat.com/2020/08/the-glorious-contradictions-of-lee-teng-hui/ |website=thediplomat.com |publisher=The Diplomat |access-date=19 August 2020}}</ref>

The [[Taiwan Action Party Alliance]], founded on 18 August 2019, incorporated One Country on Each Side into its Chinese-language name.

== See also ==
*[[Four Wants and One Without]]
*[[Special non-state-to-state relations]]
*[[Two Chinas]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}
{{Cross-Strait_relations}}
{{People's Republic of China politics}}
[[Category:Cross-strait relations]]
[[Category:Ideology of the Democratic Progressive Party]]
[[Category:Taiwan independence movement]]
[[Category:Presidency of Chen Shui-bian]]