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Your view of Taiwan's government is somewhat outdated. The KMT party (which once ruled China, and for decades ruled Taiwan) has suffered a series of overwhelmi
by samcheng 6y ago
Your view of Taiwan's government is somewhat outdated. The KMT party (which once ruled China, and for decades ruled Taiwan) has suffered a series of overwhelming electoral defeats, and the now-ruling DPP party has a platform of "Taiwan" as an independent nation, rather than the (exiled) "Republic of China."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Progressive_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Progressive_Party
- nobody0 6y agoYet Taiwan still call itself Republic of China regardless of parties. There was never a country called Taiwan. https://law.moj.gov.tw/Eng/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?PCode=A0000001 https://law.moj.gov.tw/Eng/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?PCode=A00000...
- realusername 6y agoEven that is changing slowly, the next Taiwanese passport will remove all mention of China
- nobody0 6y agoAvoiding mention it does not change ROC(Taiwan). Unless they announce independence, which is very unlikely.
- realusername 6y agoThe president did made a speech recently saying the island is already independent which is another big step. It's getting there slowly, step by step. The HK events really destroyed the taiwainese public support which was left for reunification.
- nobody0 6y agoIt is independent from mainland now, as an island of Republic of China. ROC also includes other islands outside Taiwan, like Jinmen. There are not many young people support reunification all along regardless of what happened in HK.
- seszett 6y agoThat's because of (continental) China threatening invasion if Taiwan ever declares independence. The statu quo is the only safe option for Taiwan, and that means keeping the historical claims. China prefers seeing Taiwan as a dissident government of China rather than as a successfully independentist territory. So the Taiwanese governments have to make very gradual changes towards a fully independentist stance rather than straight up acknowledging that the island is independent.
- nobody0 6y agoThere is no such a thing called gradual independence. You either have it by announcing it and other countries recoginize it or you do not have it. What I see is politicians play the rent-seeking game between China and the U.S.
- simonh 6y ago>There is no such a thing called gradual independence. The statement was "gradual changes towards independence". Are you saying it is not possible for a territory to take any steps that might lead towards independence or make it more likely? Blatantly taking statements out of context and intentionally misrepresenting them is not appreciated.
- azernik 6y agoPlease look at the Irish, or Canadian, or Montenegrin, or Philippines examples. There are all kinds of intermediate arrangements between independence and annexation, and places can slide fairly smoothly between them.
- stale2002 6y agoFor all purposes that matter, Taiwan is already independent. They don't have to declare it. They just are independent already. They control their own borders. They tax their own people. They have their own military. That makes them independent in my book, regardless of whether or not they announce it to the world or not. The "announcement" part of it just doesn't matter that much.
- eigenvector 6y agoTheir passport stamp literally says "ROC (Taiwan)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_stamp#Taiwan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_stamp#Taiwan