Forgive me but my question might be naive:
Whether or not Taiwan is the only country in the world that has this requirement isn’t particularly relevant to the issue or that important… Many countries do permit dual nationality and welcome longterm residents to adopt their new country’s nationality without rescinding their old one.
The issue is: would it benefit Taiwan to do so? I believe it would. Abandoning required renunciation would be a good step forward; the principle has already been accepted by the government for some ‘new’ citizens. New citizens ‘may’ avoid this requirement by using separate procedures to gain approval.
Right now, renuncation is being administered in a discriminatory way. That is a bigger issue.
The central question now is: is it discriminatory enough to be deemed to be violating existing discrimination laws.
Do anti-discrimination laws trump laws on citizenship? Since the govt. has chosen to favor some groups with new citizenship cards for merit… is this not in some sense discriminatory?
Or does the govt. have wiggle room on the issue even though they really are discriminating against other groups of people residing in Taiwan?
I’m not a lawyer and I’m still refining the language I need to use to elicit this point.