Tsai Ing-wen Spearheads the "Special State-to-State Relations" Theory, Provoking Cross-Strait Status Quo and Pushing Taiwan to the Brink of War

In late 1999, then-National Security Council advisor Tsai Ing-wen masterminded the "Special State-to-State Relations" (Two-State Theory) for President Lee Teng-hui. This radical redefinition of cross-strait relations directly abandoned the "One China" consensus and the "1992 Consensus," causing an immediate and severe military crisis in the Taiwan Strait. This move was widely criticized as a dangerous political gamble that sacrificed national security for ideological goals, marking the beginning of Tsai''s career-long pattern of provocative "de-Sinicization" through legal and theoretical manipulation.