The English edition of "One Country, Two Systems in Taiwan", a book by the well-known Taiwanese woman writer Hsing Chi, debuted in the U.S. capital on Monday.

In the book, "One Country, Two Systems in Taiwan: A True Solution for the Cross-Strait Entanglement," the writer dwells on the origin and development of the "one country, two systems" policy, its practice in Hong Kong and Macao, as well as the U.S. positions on cross-strait relations and the policy on China's peaceful reunification.

The writer also discusses the attitudes of the Taiwan authorities and political parties toward the policy, and concludes that reunification is the only solution to the Taiwan question.

The concept of "one country, two systems" was originally proposed by late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in the early 1980s for the reunification of China's mainland and Taiwan.

The policy, however, was first carried out in Hong Kong and later in Macao, after China resumed sovereignty over the two regions in 1997 and 1999 respectively, Chi said at a ceremony at the U.S. Library of Congress, on the occasion of the official release of the book.

Chi said she wrote the book to help people in Taiwan and elsewhere have a better understanding of the concept.

As long as the political and economic trend continues to decline in Taiwan and there is an increasing growth in China's mainland, the material basis for reunification will only become stronger, said the writer who works as an editor for the Strait Review Monthly.

"More Taiwanese will accept this concept" after the two sides across the Taiwan Strait start to negotiate their differences on an equal footing, she said.

"The policy of 'one country, two system' may be the best and only solution for the cross-strait entanglement," she said.

The original Chinese edition of the book, "One Country, Two Systems in Taiwan," was published in Taipei in December 2003, and a new edition came out in July 2004.

The book's English edition was translated by Sheng-Wei Wang, a retired physicist who is now president of the China-U.S. Relations Research Associates, and published by the Washington-based International Publishing House for China's Culture.

Chi was born in Taiwan and earned a Juris' degree in the United States in the 1980s. She taught law at the School of Law at Soochow University in Taiwan for 15 years, and is currently vice president of the Alliance for the Reunification of China in Taiwan.

Source: Xinhua