Uh, no. As I said up top, I didn't come up with the idea:

   In the 2000 presidential election, independent candidate James Soon
   proposed a European Union-style relation with mainland China (this
   was echoed by Hsu Hsin-liang in 2004) along with a non-aggression pact.
   In the 2004 presidential election, Lien Chan proposed a
   confederation-style relationship. [1]

It seems to me that maybe your dismissal of the CCP making concessions towards unification in general fits the notion of a "know-nothing outsider" much more than what I wrote. Both China and Taiwan have long held that there is only "One China" and that they eventually belong together.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_unification