Talk:Federalism in China

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Contents 1 mainland 2 Rename 3 Move suggestion 4 moved already

[edit] mainland

I'm reverting mainland out of this: "during the process of Chinese economic reform that mainland China has evolved into a de-facto federal state in which provinces have wide descretion to implement policy goals which are set by the PRC central government and in which provinces and localities"

Obviously Hong Kong and Macau have wide discretion to implement policy seperate from the central government. SchmuckyTheCat 04:22, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ok, so I changed it to "…that the People's Republic has evolved into a de-facto federal state…". We don't want to say that "China" has evolved into a specific kind of state, because per our naming conventions "China" does not refer to any particular state, but rather to a geographic/cultural region. --MarkSweep 05:01, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

This paragraph talks about the descretion to implement policy goals by the provinces of the mainland. Hong Kong and Macao are not provinces. — Instantnood 07:23, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rename

Can I rename this to Federalism in China or Federalism in the Peoples' Republic of China to make consistent with Federalism in Australia? AndrewRT(Talk) 21:49, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Make it Federalism in the People's Republic of China. —Nightstallion (?) 14:57, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

No, because many important federalist proposals predate this. Others anticipate a post-PRC future, or seek to incorporate the PRC into a wider federal framework which also includes Taiwan, and perhaps other regions also.

[edit] Move suggestion

The article covers not only federalism in the PRC, but also the pre-1949 ROC era. If we split the article, there would be too few to cover both articles. IMO, the article should be moved to Federalism in China with the help of an admin at Wikipedia:Requested moves.--Joshua ^{Say "hi" to me!}_{What have I done?} 11:56, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] moved already

I've taken the liberty of merging "Federal Republic of China" and "United States of China" with this article. While they cover somewhat different periods of history, I think the organization is still cogent, because all of these have been proposals, not actual government structures. So what we are describing is a history of federalist proposals.