Scholars symposium proposed "Two Systems Taiwan Plan" emphasizing constitutional authorization and national security
Quick Look
- Four institutions including the Hong Kong One Country, Two Systems Research Institute jointly held a symposium and proposed the "Two Systems Taiwan Plan", emphasizing that the governance power of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region comes from the authorization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and incorporating national security provisions into the Basic Law, aiming to build an eastern barrier for national security and achieve the goals of war and governance, governance and prosperity.
- Liang Wenjie, deputy chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, said that the Taiwan government and people will not accept this plan.
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Why It Matters
As special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau derive their governance powers from the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. The symposium proposed applying this model to Taiwan and emphasized the importance of national security provisions with reference to the governance experiences of Xinjiang and Tibet.
◎ Huang Yuxuan
On September 12, 2026, the Hong Kong "One Country, Two Systems" Research Institute, the Hong Kong "One Country, Two Systems" Youth Forum, the Center for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Studies at Minzu University of China, and the Hong Kong and Macao Basic Law Research Center at Shenzhen University jointly held a symposium on the practice of "One Country, Two Systems" in Hong Kong and Macao and the "Two Systems Taiwan Plan" system design and effective governance. The symposium listed 12 points of consensus. The relevant discussion was different from the context of "regional ethnic autonomy" in the past. Instead, it emphasized the importance of the "Constitution of the People's Republic of China" and stated that the governance rights of ethnic autonomous regions and special administrative regions are all derived from the authorization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The "Basic Law of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region" was formulated with reference to Hong Kong and Macau.
The Hong Kong "One Country, Two Systems" Research Institute, the Hong Kong "One Country, Two Systems" Youth Forum, the Center for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Studies at Minzu University of China, and the Hong Kong and Macao Basic Law Research Center at Shenzhen University recently jointly held a symposium on the practice of "One Country, Two Systems" in Hong Kong and Macao and the "Two Systems Taiwan Plan" system design and effective governance. (AFP file photo) The "Two Systems Taiwan Plan" seeks to strengthen the deficiencies of the previous Hong Kong "National Security Ordinance" and Macao's "National Security Law". Whether it is "peaceful reunification" or "non-peaceful reunification" of Taiwan, it will give the "Basic Law of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region" a national security nature and include relevant laws, regulations and operational mechanisms in a separate chapter of the Basic Law (based on Hong Kong's experience, it may actually form a control structure similar to the "National Security Council"). It not only pursues the leaders of "radical Taiwan independence" elements, national separatists who have persecuted reunification people, contacted external forces, or betrayed national interests, but also implements the anti-communist education and decolonization education covered by the "National Unity and Progress Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China" to implement the goals of "war to rule" and "rule to prosperity" of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region, and even fully integrate into the Zhejiang, Fujian and Taiwan Greater Bay Area.
The united front work demonstrated by the "Two Systems Taiwan Plan" is not only to integrate the Taiwanese people into the framework of the Chinese nation, but also to follow the practices of Xinjiang and Tibet to build an eastern barrier for national security. Its system of governing Xinjiang and Tibet relies on "terrorism, extremism, and separatism" to strengthen control over ethnic minorities. If the "Two Systems Taiwan Plan" is successfully implemented, future threats will turn into "Japanese new militarism" and "American imperialism", making it difficult to obtain the benefits of what the CCP calls the Asia-Pacific Economic Operations Center, a high-tech industrial base, and a center for mutual learning among civilizations and cultural exchanges.
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In response to the consensus reached by scholars from the Hong Kong One Country, Two Systems Research Institute and other institutions, Liang Wenjie, deputy chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, recently emphasized that the Taiwan government and Taiwanese people "will not accept any of it." (File photo) (The author is a doctoral student at the Institute of International Affairs and Strategy, Tamkang University)
What to Watch
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The Taiwan government will formally reject the two-system Taiwan plan and step up its request for foreign aid.
Likely · Within weeks
The international community will raise strong concerns about the two-system Taiwan plan and call for maintaining the status quo across the Taiwan Strait
Possible · Within months
Open Questions
- What is the specific reaction of the people of Taiwan to this plan?
- What kind of international response will the two-systems Taiwan plan face?
- If implemented, how will the Basic Law of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region operate in detail?
- How will national security provisions affect Taiwan’s civil rights and freedoms?
