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Who proposed the "One Country, Two Systems" principle?

  • Mao Zedong

  • Chiang Kai-shek

  • Xi Jinping

  • Deng Xiaoping

Answer

Deng Xiaoping, a Chinese politician and reformist leader, proposed the "One Country, Two Systems" principle in the early 1980s as a way to reunify China and Taiwan while allowing Taiwan to maintain its own political, economic, and legal systems.
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