In this episode of La Loupe, Cyrille Pluyette, editor-in-chief of the world service of L’Express, explains to us what the status quo is that we often talk about in the conflict between Taiwan and China.
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The team: Mathias Penguilly (presentation), Charlotte Baris (writing) and Jules Krot (editing and direction).
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Mathias Penguilly: The “status quo”. This Latin expression is deciphered by the Asia specialist at L’Express, and you will quickly understand why. First of all, it is a notion which means “the maintenance of a situation as it is”. It is used in politics, in sociology but also in diplomacy and particularly Cyrille, in the case of the relationship between China and Taiwan.
Cyrille Pluyette: Yes, to understand, you have to explain what the situation is. Taiwan is an independent state de facto, that is to say that it has its own government, its own laws, but that its independence is not legally established. Taiwan has never formally declared its independence. On the other hand, China wants a “reunification”, preferably peacefully (but if necessary by force), because it considers that Taiwan, where Chiang Kai-Chek’s nationalist troops fled in 1949, defeated by the communists of Mao, is part of his territory…
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