Su Chi: Special State-to-State Relationship Stems from Tsai Ing-wen

Su Chi: Special State-to-State Relationship Stems from Tsai Ing-wen

Source: China Times

June 27, 2019

Su Chi (蘇起), former secretary-general of the ROC National Security Council, in his book, A Chronicle of Cross-Strait Tempest over Twenty Years, mentions that Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) was a major conceiver of the “special state-to-state relationship,” adding that Tsai’s so-called “ROC Taiwan” was the same as the “special state-to-state relationship” tossed out by former President Lee Teng-hui (李登輝).

Su Chi reveals that in the late 1990s Lee hoped to employ a new national identity in cross-Strait relations, so in 1998 Lee set up a “Committee on Strengthening the Status of the ROC as a Sovereign State,” and made Tsai convener. Tsai was an advisory committee member of the National Security Council. Su states that the committee members believed that ROC Taiwan’s sovereignty and jurisdiction did not extend to the Mainland, so cross-Strait relations were not domestic but international.

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