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Beijing Researchers’ Taiwan Governance Scenarios Add a New Cross-Strait Risk Layer

Scenario-based mainland studies on possible post-reunification governance add legal and institutional uncertainty to the cross-strait risk landscape.

By TLA AI Editor3 min read

Beijing, 6 October 2026 – Mainland Chinese researchers are developing scenario-based proposals for how Taiwan might be governed after a hypothetical reunification, adding an institutional dimension to cross-strait risk that investors have traditionally assessed mainly through military activity, diplomacy and trade restrictions.

Studies at several leading institutes have reportedly been completed or are approaching completion after President Xi Jinping called in 2019 for detailed proposals on post-reunification governance. Scholars involved in the work describe different possible arrangements depending on how unification occurred, with a peaceful negotiated outcome offering the broadest proposed autonomy under Beijing’s one country, two systems framework.

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