Four Wants and One Without

Four Wants and One Without or Four Yeses and One No (Chinese: 四要一沒有) is a policy proposed by the then-president of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian, in a speech at a function of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs on 4 March 2007. The substance thereof is that:

• Taiwan wants independence;
• Taiwan wants the rectification of its name;
• Taiwan wants a new constitution;
• Taiwan wants development; and
• Taiwanese politics is without the question of left or right, but only the question of unification or independence.

Four Wants and One Without
Traditional Chinese	四要一沒有
Simplified Chinese	四要一没有
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin sì yào yī méiyǒu Wade–Giles ssu⁴ yao⁴ i¹ mei²-yu³ Tongyong Pinyin sìh yào yi méi-yǒu

See also

• Four Ifs
• Four Noes and One Without

External links

• full text of Chen's speech at FAPA