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> showing Taiwan as a separate country Fun fact: the government of Taiwan would also object to these maps. Both the RoC and the PRoC claim that all of China (m

> showing Taiwan as a separate country Fun fact: the government of Taiwan would also object to these maps. Both the RoC and the PRoC claim that all of China (mainland + the island of Taiwan) is actually one country, but disagree on who's rightfully in charge of it. This is also what both governments use to justify allowing civilian travel between them, with a polite legal fiction along the lines of 'that's still China over there so you can go there, even though that territory is controlled by those people we don't like'.

CharlesColeman 8y ago
> Fun fact: the government of Taiwan would also object to these maps. Both the RoC and the PRoC claim that all of China (mainland + the island of Taiwan) is actually one country, but disagree on who's rightfully in charge of it. Another fun fact: the RoC would probably give up its claim to Mainland China if it could, but it can't because the PRC would interpret that as a declaration of independence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan#Possible_military_solutions_and_intervention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan#Pos...