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What definition of nationality are you working with? Wikipedia defines it as "the legal relationship between a person and a state." I'm not confusing anything,

by kyllo 10y ago

What definition of nationality are you working with? Wikipedia defines it as "the legal relationship between a person and a state." I'm not confusing anything, I know the difference between nationality and ethnicity (and language). The non-Han people in the PRC are of Chinese nationality because they are residents of territory that is under the PRC's political and military control. That statement is not true for the people of Taiwan. They have their own government, and many people including elected officials in that government want to remove the word China from the country's official name. So are Taiwanese people of Chinese nationality? No. Chinese ethnicity? A slight majority. Chinese speaking? A larger majority. So again it depends what you mean by "Chinese." The rest of the facts you're stating are true on paper only--they are political fictions perpetuated by the cold war.

rangibaby 10y ago
Both PRC and ROC consider themselves the real China (hence Chinese), which was my point.
- ptaipale 10y ago
  And, somewhat surprisingly for many Westerners, in the PRC mindset it is very bad if ROC ceases to claim all of China, because that would mean that it has become secessionist, i.e. there would be more than one China. So far they have agreed on one thing, "there is only one China and we're the legal government", and just disagreed on who's "we". PRC has naturally a much stronger claim to that since it controls a vast majority of China. But in 1970's, PRC was deep in radical socialist experiments and the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, and the economy was weak, while ROC had opened up to world trade (I remember all those Taiwanese Apple and PC clones of early 1980's). It looked like ROC will actually be the more significant economy, even if it has much smaller population. Then PRC changed its course.

by kyllo 10y ago

rangibaby 10y ago

Both PRC and ROC consider themselves the real China (hence Chinese), which was my point.

ptaipale 10y ago
And, somewhat surprisingly for many Westerners, in the PRC mindset it is very bad if ROC ceases to claim all of China, because that would mean that it has become secessionist, i.e. there would be more than one China. So far they have agreed on one thing, "there is only one China and we're the legal government", and just disagreed on who's "we". PRC has naturally a much stronger claim to that since it controls a vast majority of China. But in 1970's, PRC was deep in radical socialist experiments and the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, and the economy was weak, while ROC had opened up to world trade (I remember all those Taiwanese Apple and PC clones of early 1980's). It looked like ROC will actually be the more significant economy, even if it has much smaller population. Then PRC changed its course.