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- Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is governed in a framework of a representative democratic republic under a five-power system first envisioned by Sun Yat-sen in 1906, whereby under the constitutional amendments, the President is head of state and the Premier (President of the Executive Yuan) is head of government, and of a multi-party system.
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The political status of Taiwan or the Taiwan issue is an ongoing geopolitical dispute about Taiwan, currently controlled by the Republic of China (ROC), that arose in the mid-twentieth century.
Legislative power is formally vested in both the government and its tricameral parliament: the National Assembly where it elects the President and Vice-President as well as make major constitutional amendments, the Control Yuan and the Legislative Yuan.
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.
Feb 8, 2024 · In Taiwan, which has its own democratically elected government and is home to twenty-three million people, political leaders have differing views on the island’s status and relations with the...
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Nov 29, 2021 · U.S.-Taiwan relations have been unofficial since January 1, 1979, when the Carter Administration established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and broke diplomatic ties with self-ruled Taiwan, over which the PRC claims sovereignty.
5 days ago · Taiwan has become a global diplomatic, economic, and security flashpoint. Our one-of-a-kind interactive database allows visitors to use primary sources in both English and Mandarin to trace the evolution of cross-Strait relations from the perspectives of Beijing, Taipei, and Washington.
This chapter summarizes the three most common viewpoints on Taiwan’s legal status under international law: that Taiwan is a part of China, that Taiwan’s legal status is undetermined, and that Taiwan has de facto independence from mainland China.
