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Jun 10, 2021 · Historians have shown that popular and official discussion of Taiwan as a part of China, and formal efforts to gain control of Taiwan by the government of the Republic of China (ROC) and its ...
- Evan Dawley
Jan 5, 2024 · “Taiwan has never belonged to China,” says Hsieh Jolan, a professor of indigenous studies from the indigenous Siraya people. “We have come to be on two different paths quite naturally....
Jan 8, 2024 · And when it comes to identity, she says she is only Taiwanese, not Chinese. It was something she arrived at when she was living abroad in the United Kingdom several years ago. In 2014, a major political protest was unfolding back home in Taiwan.
- Ailsa Chang
The political and legal statuses of Taiwan are contentious issues. The People's Republic of China (PRC) claims that Taiwan is Chinese territory and that the PRC replaced the ROC government in 1949, becoming the sole legal government of China. [81]
Jan 8, 2024 · FENG: Yes. And identity is a hugely sensitive issue for this island of 23 million people. Because even though more than 90% of people living in Taiwan can trace their roots to mainland China, the...
- Ailsa Chang
Jan 15, 2024 · China has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan since the end of the civil war in 1949, when the defeated Nationalist government fled to the island as the Communists under Mao Zedong swept to power.
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China sees self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province that will eventually be under Beijing's control - and has not ruled out the use of force to take the island.
