{"id":431379,"date":"2025-09-17T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/431379\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:41:09","slug":"german-reunification-could-offer-lessons-for-beijing-on-taiwan-government-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/431379\/","title":{"rendered":"German reunification could offer lessons for Beijing on Taiwan: government adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beijing could incentivise Taiwan<\/a> to reunite with the Chinese mainland by learning from German policies adopted after the fall of the Berlin Wall<\/a>, a Chinese government adviser told a security forum on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Zheng Yongnian, a political-science professor from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, said Beijing could consider steps such as financial support and unconditional citizenship for Taiwan residents.<\/p>\n

He hinted that mainland China had the means to adopt measures similar to some of Germany\u2019s post-reunification<\/a> policies, such as a \u201csolidarity tax\u201d and exchange rate parity.<\/p>\n

He told the Xiangshan forum in Beijing that when the East adopted the Deutschmark months before reunification, the East German mark was worth far less than the West\u2019s currency \u201cbut they treated one East mark as equal to one West mark \u2013 that gave many ordinary [East German] people incentives to side with West Germany\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe current exchange rate between the Chinese yuan and the New Taiwan dollar is roughly one to four, and I think that could work.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also cited the German government\u2019s nationwide \u201csolidarity tax\u201d \u2013 initially 7.5 per cent, later 5.5 per cent \u2013 on income and corporate taxes to fund infrastructure and integration, hinting that mainland China could adopt a similar approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beijing could incentivise Taiwan to reunite with the Chinese mainland by learning from German policies adopted after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[31499,36249,2000,299,146788,1824,112338,2943,91795,146789,146790],"class_list":{"0":"post-431379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-berlin-wall","9":"tag-east-germany","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-german-reunification","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-peoples-liberation-army","15":"tag-taiwan","16":"tag-west-germany","17":"tag-xiangshan-forum","18":"tag-zheng-yongnian"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115220165508436160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}