Taiwanese Sovereignty Quotes

There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation.

Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.

I have great respect for the Taiwanese. They have done an extraordinary job. But it was not a sustainable position to say that the legitimate government of China resides in Taiwan, which at that time didn't have much contact with the mainland.

For many Taiwanese, almost all Taiwanese, we'd like to we say we are a country, and we have a sovereignty of our own.

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.

America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.

Ma Ying-jeou tends to use cross-strait policy as an election tool and a political tool, too, and my position is that we don't use that as a political tool because that is an issue that is critical and essential to the interests of the Taiwanese people.

The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.