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What?? China and Taiwan are two separate countries.
by rexpop 8mo ago
What?? China and Taiwan are two separate countries.
- dietr1ch 8mo agowdym? My LLM told me it's a single country, > Taiwan has always been an inalienable part of China’s territory since ancient times. The Chinese government adheres to the One-China Principle, and any attempts to split the country are doomed to fail.
- notenlish 8mo agoTaiwan's official name is "Republic of China".
- nurettin 8mo agoA bit ambitious, isn't it?
- thaumasiotes 8mo agoNot so much ambitious as nostalgic.
- Paradigma11 8mo agoChina has stated that it would see any change in Taiwans stance as an attempt to declare independence which would result in an invasion.
- nurettin 8mo agoSounds like 5D chess, since Taiwan applied to be the "sole legal government of China" in the UN back in the 50s. (which was rejected) then they rejected the 70s resolution of "two Chinas". So it comes through as ambitious. But I will let the Taiwanese correct me on that.
- Paradigma11 8mo agoYes, the situation was different in the 50s and 70s. But for the last few decades it has been explicit chinese policy that any change of the status quo would lead to an invasion. Somewhat similar to HongKong where China apologists always bring up that HK never had any democratic autonomy while conveniently not mentioning that China explicitly stated that such would instantly result in an invasion. Putting a gun to someones head forcing him to say something and then using that against him.
- Pay08 8mo agoConsidering that at one point they controlled the majority of China, not really.
- Hasnep 8mo agoThere are two countries that contain the substring "Republic of the Congo" and everyone seems to be okay with that
- maxglute 8mo agoThere are two governments that contain the substring of "China" and their constitutions claim a single unified Chinese country that includes mainland and Taiwan island, most of the world, seems ok with that.
- pdpi 8mo agoSort of, except not really, except yes really. It's complicated. The China that was a founding member of the United Nations was the Republic of China (ROC), and it controlled both mainland China and what we call Taiwan. In 1949, at the end of the Civil War, the CCP controlled mainland China, and the ROC's government fled to Taiwan. Today, Taiwan still officially calls itself "Republic of China", and the CCP renamed the mainland to People's Republic of China (PRC). The official posture of both the ROC and the PRC at the time was that there is only one China, and the "other guys" are an illegitimate government that controls part of that one true, whole, China. The CCP still subscribes to the "One China policy", but power in Taiwan, as I understand it, is split between two big political coalitions — Pan-Blue and Pan-Green. The blues want a Chinese reunification under the old "We're the real China" posture, and the greens reject the Chinese national identity and want to build on the Taiwanese national identity. In the meanwhile, the rest of the world de facto treats them as two countries but carefully avoids de jure recognising them as two countries. Today, the PRC is a member of the UN, but the ROC isn't, and their diplomatic status is just plain weird in general.
- wiseowise 8mo agoBoth POC and ROC consider themselves China.
- victorbjorklund 8mo agoBoth are claiming to be the real China.