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Three Principles of the People Unifies China（）is a slogan and policy invented in 1981 under the ruling of Chiang Ching-kuo. This slogan shows the counterattack attitude of the Republic of China was changed gradually, which is from by military force to by political propaganda.

Backgrounds and Phased Changes
In 1949, in the Chinese Civil War, the Communist Party of China (CPC) occupied mainland China, whilst Kuomintang (KMT)-led nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC) forced to retreat to the island of Taiwan. The president of ROC, Chiang Kai-shek still remains the policy of counterattack and reconquering mainland China. With that policy, and the purpose of prohibiting the infiltration from CPC and counterattack, the nationalist government declared that Taiwan was under martial law. However, the martial law in Taiwan destructed the democratic constitutional system, and spent almost 80% of the national annual budget on the military. Since that, People's daily life was seriously affected. Productivity of ROC was therefore pulling down. Furthermore, with the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 and, the severing of diplomatic relations between Japan and ROC, the United States and ROC, the People's Republic of China began taking a dominant position in international in the 1970s. Because ROC started losing international influence and lacked of domestic strength to support counterattack policy, the slogan as to counterattacks started to be changed, from its origin "Counterattack the mainland China" (反攻大陸), to "70% by Politics, 30% by Military" (七分政治三分軍事), to "Three Principles of the People Unifies China" in 1975, and finally changed to "Democracy, Freedom, and Equitably Prosperity Unifies China" (自由、民主、均富統一中國).