Taipei's Name Game It's Time to Let Taiwan Be Taiwan / Salvatore Babones
（谷歌翻譯）
先是打電話，然後是炸彈。
12月2日，唐納德·特朗普借台灣總統蔡英文十分鐘的賀電，扭轉了37年的美國外交政策。昨天，他進一步，宣布他不知道“為什麼我們[美國]必須受一個中國政策的約束，除非我們與中國有關的其他事情，包括貿易。
特朗普的官方立場仍不清楚，但他的評論表明，在台灣問題上，他可能贊成改變一個持續了近四十年的現狀。美國一個中國政策的現行版本，認為中國祇有一個合法政府，可追溯到1979年，美國承認北京的共產主義政府，同時打破了與台北民族主義政府的正式外交關係。
當時，台灣仍然是一個鎮壓的一黨制國家，但在未來20年，它和平地轉變為一個充滿活力的自由民主。但是儘管取得了這些進展，仍然沒有一個獨立的國家稱為“台灣”。 Ts族島仍然是中華民國（ROC）。中國大陸指的是台灣，正式認為它是一個叛逆的省，但實際上它像一個外國。世界貿易組織稱之為“台灣，澎湖，金門和馬祖（中國台北）的獨立海關領土”。美國使用台灣這個名稱，並希望與台灣政府保持強有力的非官方關係然而，當美國國務院發言人今年早些時候意外地打電話給台灣一個國家時，它被認為是一個主要的長期。
但是什麼是台灣呢？今天，在中國內戰結束70年後，該島與大陸分離，現在是國際社會解決這個問題的時候了。永遠保留台灣是中國的神話的神話是沒有意義的。相反，現在是台灣成為正常國家的時候了。
放棄童年
當然，中國可能永遠不接受台灣試圖像任何其他國家那樣行事，並且肯定否決台灣加入聯合國的會員國。但北京必須知道，台灣永遠不會回來。今天的年輕台灣人在一個自由，開放和民主的社會中成長，不會投票支持北京，尤其是在目睹香港發生了什麼事情之後。他們的子女和孫子們更不可能這樣做。北京等待台灣和平地加入中國就像平壤等待韓國和平加入北方，大陸不會接受軍事解決方案的費用。
同樣，即使中國從未正式承認台灣是一個國家，如果台灣更像一個國家，它可能開始對待島嶼。如果台灣要認真對待，就必須認真對待。在南中國海宣布其領土要求將是一個好的開始。像北京一樣，台北對整個南中國海的主權提出了薄弱的要求，其基礎是它是中國海洋領土的合法主張。
如果台灣要認真對待，就必須認真對待。
台灣南海的索賠是以臭名昭著的九劃線為基礎的，1947年首先在中國地圖上繪製了一個粗糙的海洋邊界。這條線說明了對中華民國海南，中國南海海域，島嶼和海底的廣泛要求，當時是在大陸的控制。當共產黨人贏得中國內戰時，他們採用九劃線作為自己的主張的基礎，而今天中國和台灣都認為整個南海屬於他們，也就是真正的中國。
具有諷刺意味的是，中國對南海的主張大部分是基於台北在台灣以南900多英裡處有爭議的太平島（也稱為Itu Aba）擁有廣泛的設施。但是在2016年7月12日，“海洋法公約”海牙常設仲裁法院裁定該島是一個岩石，因此賦予其最低限度的領土權利。即使台灣不是“海洋法公約”的締約國，也應該尊重這一裁決，退出太平島，使岩石恢復到自然狀態。這樣做會贏得整個地區的朋友，中國不能很好地抱怨台灣撤軍。
Taipei's Name Game
It's Time to Let Taiwan Be
Taiwan
First the phone call, then the
bombshell. On December 2, Donald Trump reversed 37 years of American foreign
policy by taking a ten-minute congratulatory phone call from Taiwanese
President Tsai Ing-wen. Yesterday, he went further, announcing that he doesn’t know “why we [the United States] have to be bound by a One China
policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things,
including trade.”
Trump’s
official position is still unclear, but his comments indicate that on the issue
of Taiwan, he may favor changing a status quo that has persisted for nearly
four decades. The current version of the United States’ One
China policy, which holds that there is only one legitimate government of
China, dates to 1979, when the United States recognized the communist
government in Beijing while breaking off formal diplomatic ties with the
nationalist government in Taipei.
At the time, Taiwan was still a
repressive one-party state, but over the next 20 years it peacefully
transformed itself into a vibrant liberal democracy. But despite this progress,
there is still not a independent country named "Taiwan." The island
Tsai governs stillcalls itself the Republic
of China (ROC). Mainland China refers to it as Taiwan and officially considers it to be a renegade
province, but in practice treats it like a foreign country. The World Trade
Organization calls it the “Separate
Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu (Chinese Taipei)."
The United Statesstill
uses the name Taiwan and is open about its
desire to maintain strong, unofficial relations with the government in Taipei.
Nevertheless, when a U.S. State Department spokesperson accidentally called
Taiwan a country earlier this year, it wasconsidered a major
gaffe.
But what is Taiwan, then?
Today, 70 years after the end of the Chinese civil war that separated the
island from the mainland, it is time for the international community to settle
this question. It is meaningless to perpetuate the myth that Taiwan is a
province of China. Rather, it is time for Taiwan to become a normal country.
PUTTING AWAY CHILDISH THINGS
Of course, China may never
accept Taiwan’s attempt to behave as a country like
any other, and would certainly veto Taiwanese membership in the United Nations.
But Beijing must know thatTaiwan
is never coming back. Today’s young Taiwanese have grown
up in a free, open, and democratic society and are never going to vote to be
governed from Beijing, especially after witnessing what has happened to Hong
Kong. Their children and grandchildren will be even less likely to do so.
Beijing waiting for Taiwan to peacefully join China would be like Pyongyang
waiting for South Korea to peacefully join the North, and the mainland would
not accept the costs of an attempted military solution.
By the same token, even if
China never formally recognized Taiwan as a nation, it might begin to treat the
island differently if Taiwan behaved more like a country. If Taiwan wants to be
taken seriously, it must behave seriously. Renouncing its territorial claims in
the South China Sea would be a good place to start. Like Beijing, Taipei
maintains a flimsy claim to sovereignty
over the entire South China Sea, based on the premise that it is the
rightful claimant of China’s maritime territory.
If Taiwan wants to be taken
seriously, it must behave seriously.
Taiwan’s South
China Sea claims are based on the infamous nine-dash line, a rough sea boundary
first drawn on Chinese maps in 1947. The line illustrated the expansive claims
over the waters, islands, and seabed of the South China Sea made by the ROC,
which at the time was in control of the mainland. When the communists won the
Chinese civil war, they adopted the nine-dash line as the basis of their own
claims, and today both China and Taiwan maintain that the entire South China
Sea belongs to them—that is, to the real China.
Ironically, much of China's
claim over the South China Sea is based on the fact that Taipei
maintains extensive facilities on Taiping Island (also
known as Itu Aba), a disputed feature more than 900 miles south of Taiwan. But
on July 12, 2016, the
UNCLOS Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled that
the island is a rock and therefore affords its holder minimal territorial
rights. Even though Taiwan is not a party to UNCLOS, it should respect this
ruling, withdraw from Taiping Island, and return the rock to its natural state.
Doing so would earn it friends throughout the region, and China can't very well
complain about a Taiwanese withdrawal.
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