重新思考「一國兩制」的呼聲？

已故中共老一輩革命家、前副總理陸定一的長子陸德接受路透採訪時說：「我們現在對臺灣是『一國兩府』的問題。」

Bold call for China to rethink Taiwan policy By Benjamin Kang Lim（2008.06.14）

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese economist whose contrarian views have previously caught the leadership's eye has suggested Beijing revise its "one country, two systems" formula for Taiwan and consider a federation or confederation.

The contentious idea for a rethink of China 's policy towards self-ruled Taiwan , which Beijing claims as its own, is almost certain to trigger a heated debate in the Communist Party, the government and academia.

Most ordinary Chinese buy the government's official line about the inevitable return to the fold for Taiwan , a rival to the mainland since their split in 1949 amid civil war.

"It's one country, two governments," Lu De, the eldest son of the late reform-minded vice-premier Lu Dingyi, told Reuters in a rare interview.

"To resolve the cross-Strait problem, (we) must create new concepts and thinking or else it would give rise to contradictions and chaos in policy, thinking and action," said Lu, a board member of Beijing 's semi-official China Council for Promoting Peaceful Reunification.

China and Taiwan signed a landmark deal last week to launch regular flights as politics were put aside in favor of practicalities in their first formal talks in almost a decade.

Nonetheless, Lu called for bold new thinking on how to deal with Taiwan's new President Ma Ying-jeou, who has vowed "not to unify (with China), not to declare independence and not to go to war".

In a deviation from conventional thinking, Lu said the "one country, two systems" formula, under which Hong Kong and Macau reverted to Chinese rule in 1997 and 1999 respectively, was unfit for Taiwan.

REFLECTING REALITY

He said Beijing and Taipei could instead eventually form a federation or confederation to reflect the political reality that China and Taiwan have different currencies, armies, fiscal systems and diplomatic allies.

Taiwan's Ma is anti-independence, but has rejected overtures toward a "one country, two systems" formula, instead styling Taiwan as the Republic of China and favoring the status quo of no unification but also no independence.

Mao Zedong declared the demise of the Republic of China when he founded the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, and the U.S.-backed Republic of China government moved to Taiwan .

For China 's Communist leadership, civil war has not ended as the two sides never signed a ceasefire or peace treaty.

Lu said he was expressing a personal view to spark discussion and find the least costly solution for peaceful unification. But as a "princeling" -- one the privileged offspring of China 's political elite -- he has close ties to the leadership.

Lu said China could not go so far as to recognize the existence of a separate country.

"We cannot recognize its legitimacy because there would then be two Chinas and it would be a violation of our constitution," said Lu, a state banker-turned-economist.

"Will declaring an end to the state of war be tantamount to recognizing the legitimacy and existence of the Republic of China?" he asked.

Beijing insists Taiwan must eventually return to the fold, by force if it formally declares independence.

Chinese President Hu Jintao has described Ma's Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), regaining Taiwan 's presidency last month as a "rare and historic opportunity" for reconciliation.

But dealing with Ma's predecessor, Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan 's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, was the easy part. China simply stonewalled him.

Hu's predecessor menaced Taiwan with war games in the run-up to the island's presidential elections in 1996.

When gunboat diplomacy did not work, China changed its Taiwan policy from pushing for unification with the threat of force to one of preventing a formal declaration of statehood.

Beijing softened its "one China " policy to mean "both the mainland and Taiwan " instead of merely "the People's Republic of China ". (Editing by Lindsay Beck and Jerry Norton)