- Three Noes
The Three-Noes Policy ( _zh. 三不政策) is a
policy in the 1980s maintained by PresidentChiang Ching-kuo of theRepublic of China (Taiwan), in response to thePeople’s Republic of China 's attempts to have direct contact with the ROC. When theUnited States broke diplomatic ties with the ROC in 1979, the PRC believed that it had complete leverage in convincing Taiwan’s government to talk. President Chiang Ching-kuo stubbornly refused, reiterating that there were to be “no contact, no compromise, and no negotiation” (不接觸,不談判,不妥協) with the Chinese Communists.The hijacking of a Taiwan-based
China Airlines cargo plane onMay 3 ,1986 shattered the "Three Noes" policy. The pilotWang Shi-chuen subdued the two other members of the flight crew and commandeered the plane toGuangzhou , forcing the ROC government to publicly send unofficial envoys to negotiate inHong Kong with PRC officials over the return of the plane and the flight crew. The pilot, credited by the PRC for reestablishing contact betweenChina and Taiwan, received a hero’s welcome in China and became a senior PRC aviation official as well as serving as a so-called "Taiwanese delegate" to PRC government institutions.During this time, many China-born ROC armed forces veterans pressed President Chiang Ching-kuo to allow family reunions between the Chinese refugees who settled in Taiwan after the
Chinese Civil War and their relatives in China. President Chiang relented in 1987, authorizing the ROCRed Cross to issue permits allowing people from Taiwan to travel to Chinese Mainland only for family reunions. This started the regular civilian and unofficial exchanges between the PRC and the ROC that continues to progress to this day.
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