Four Wants and One Without or Four Yeses and One No (
Chinese
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: 四要一沒有) is a
policy
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proposed by the former
president
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of the
Republic of China
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...
(commonly called "Taiwan"),
Chen Shui-bian
Chen Shui-bian (; born 12 October 1950) is a retired Taiwanese politician and lawyer who served as the president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008. Chen was the first president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) whic ...
, in a speech at a function of the
Formosan Association for Public Affairs
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on 4 March 2007. The substance thereof is that:
* Taiwan ''wants''
independence
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;
* Taiwan ''wants''
the rectification of its name;
* Taiwan ''wants'' a new
constitution
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When ...
;
* Taiwan ''wants'' development; and
*
Taiwanese politics is ''without'' the
question of left or right, but only the question of
unification or
independence
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.
See also
*
Four Ifs
*
Four Noes and One Without The Four Noes and One Without (), also known as the Four Noes () was a pledge by former President of the Republic of China Chen Shui-bian made in his inauguration speech on 20 May 2000, concerning the political status of Taiwan. It was an important ...
External links
full text of Chen's speech at FAPA
Politics of Taiwan
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