Opinion | How Deng Xiaoping’s ‘one country, two systems’ dates back to 1957 in Tibet

Opinion | How Deng Xiaoping’s ‘one country, two systems’ dates back to 1957 in Tibet

Some 25 years before Deng Xiaoping first proposed “one country, two systems” as a creative political solution to facilitate Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau’s return to China, Mao Zedong tasked him with finding an answer to the Tibet issue. It was 1957, six years after Beijing and Lhasa signed the Seventeen-Point Agreement that confirmed Tibet … Read more