Ocp

somewhere this tine last year, the OCP set in PRC in the 60s? Was abolished and we in school or maybe it was just me were really excited because it showed that outdated and irrelevant policies could be abolished and perhaps the ccp was not tht rigid afterall. Fast forward one year to today, lets look at the other ocp set in 1992. Now this ocp is more compelx than the 1960 OCP. Youl will understand why later.

Lets first look at the history of both sides of the strait.
In 1900ish, at the first sino japanese war, Taiwan was taken over and renamed formosa just as we were renamed syonanto for three years.
Formosa was under japanese rule for all the way till 1945 when japan lost the ww2 and lost all the other territories that did not belong to them before their imperialistic behaviour

In mainland china, where more action happened, the years after ww2 was tumultuous because there wasnt a clear party to lead. Party = ideology
The guy who pushed over the qing dynasty, katayama san, 中山先生 wanted a unified china that respected people. (I got this general idea from watching the soong dynasty movie) but after he died, his disciple, chiang, purged the communists in his party, KMT.
Communism was a popular concept then in newly 'liberalised' china. This ideology won the hearts of the people (in the 1940s?)
Ok so chiang and his KMT retreated to Formosa taiwan. I am not very clear about the taiwan stance in 1950s because they are not totally made up of the Han chinese. They had their aboriginal people.

So prc was sort of closed for the next thirty years until 1978 when they opened.

During this 30 years, taiwan ROC represented the idea of "china" as a country in world organisations and sought to be a global partner. They helped sg when we said "help we have no land to train our new army" so they said "come to me, and i shall lend you land" this was in the early 70s.

When PRC opened up in 1978, their land size and population size and ambition(?) prompted other nations to recognise it as The China. This led to ROC which was The China for thirty years. Roc could not paticipate in world stuff such as olympics

In 1992, the ocp was signed. This was not received well in ROC which led to the party that represented ROC to sign the ocp to lose support for the first time in 45 years to the DPP led by Ah Bian. Thankfully for the KMT, ah bian was terrible so they got back their support for eight years. Ma ended his term by meeting Comrade mr xi who represented ccp for the first time.

Now why ocp is complex. The fact that it means One China can be intepreted in many ways. Both sides of the straits can regard themselves to be The China. Since majority of the people who preferred CCP to their founding father's disciple's KMT back then have probably died, can the CCP still represent the people of PRC?

Next, countries such as ours that signed agreements with the china before prc became the china. Can it still be valid?

There are limitations to this quick rant such as
1. I did not explore how KMT came to power in taiwan and named themselves ROC
2. I did not explore the status of Taiwan before it became formosa

Perhaps as things progress, i will add on
But for now,
Smell ya later