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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.