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But the PRC has been in control of China for 60 years and has more than a tiny island. While the PRC used to be a rebellion, that was a long time ago.

• eob 13y ago
  I'm pretty sure you are replying with the assumption that maaku was making a statement about who should be recognized as "China". I believe he was actually making a statement about the legitimacy of the Taiwanese claim to sovereignty over their own island. Mainland claims to ownership over the island have to be argued from a historical context, since they haven't actually had any administrative control over the island for over 100 years. So maaku was responding to this argument (without actually invoking it) by saying that if the question is "who was there first, the KMT or the PRC" then the KMT technically wins since it both predates the PRC and has maintained uninterrupted control until Taiwan became a democracy. Of course.. the situation is actually more complicated than that because the KMT and PRC are both mainland governments forced upon Taiwan (one successful and one still hoping), while Taiwan has its own history, language, and ethnicities. So in an even broader historical context both are technically "invaders." Such is the fate of all small island nations, perhaps...
  • maaku 13y ago
    Correct, on all accounts.
    • codexon 13y ago
      > legitimacy of the Taiwanese claim to sovereignty over their own island Taiwan has been dominated by Han Chinese ever since the 1600s. It is less of "Taiwanese" trying to govern their own island than the ROC fleeing communism to a distant province that was too hard to invade and too small to care about. Even though it has been left to rule itself mostly for all these years, that does not make it a sovereign nation any more than Hong Kong to China or Puerto Rico to the US.
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