In
Peng Ming-min's 1964 , it was stated that "One China, one Taiwan" had been an ironclad fact (). The same concept “
One China, One Formosa” was presented in
Chen Lung-chu and
Harold Lasswell’s book-length proposal in 1967 —
Formosa, China and the United Nations: Formosa in the World Community. Chen used this phrase in an August 3, 2002, telecast to the annual conference of the
World Federation of Taiwanese Associations meeting in Tokyo when he stated that it needs to be clear that "with Taiwan and China on each side of the
Taiwan Strait, each side is a country." His statements were made in
Taiwanese Minnan as opposed to
Mandarin and drew a barrage of criticism from the
mainland Chinese press, which had previously shied away from the types of attacks it gave to
Lee Teng-hui, who promoted a similar "''''''". The United States also expressed serious concerns over this concept, as the U.S. felt that this concept appeared to have departed from Chen's earlier pledge of "
Four Noes and One Without". "State-to-state relations" had originally been translated in English as “country-to-country relations” but the
Mainland Affairs Council got the translation changed to the less provocative option. The
Taiwan Action Party Alliance, founded on 18 August 2019, incorporated One Country on Each Side into its Chinese-language name. == See also ==