What’s the issue with Taiwan?

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CCP want Taiwan. Taiwan no want CCP. They are both China

Taiwan used to be part of China.

1920's - Chinese Civil War begins between the Kuomintang (Nationalists) and Communists. Kuomintang was led by a guy named Chiang Kai-shek. The Communists were led by Mao Zedong.

1930's - Japan invades China. The Kuomintang and Communists agree to stop fighting each other for awhile and team up against Japan.

1940's - Japan is defeated. The Kuomintang and Communists resume their civil war.

1947-48 - The Communists under Mao Zedong are victorious. The Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek have retreated to Taiwan. Mainland China becomes the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan becomes the Republic of China.

1950's-Present - The People's Republic of China view Taiwan as part of them, but as a province in rebellion. The government in Taiwan views themselves as sort of a "government-in-exile" for all of China.

The United States has a defense agreement with Taiwan.

This is why knowing history is important. It explains the who/what/when/where/why we are where we are today.

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SlidellCajun

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The continued existence of an ROC is a stick in their eye. It says that they did not notch a total win in the Revolution.

Remove all the frills, and it is really that simple.

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Don't get too paranoid about it

This is the issue with a national divorce. It might work for a little while, but in 50-60-80 years, the stronger side will claim that the other side belongs to them.

China-Taiwan is literally a national divorce. They kept running until Mao didnt chase them anymore.

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Remember when GB tried to make claim for America. Then the founding Patriots said “Make my day”. Same thing

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Horrible analogy. Let’s look at it from a historical context more familiar to you.

Imagine that all the American Tories fled to Maine in the early 1780s, established a government under the Articles and claimed to still be the legitimate government of the entire United States, while the government in the remaining states moved forward with a new Constitution and continued to claim Maine as part of Massachusetts. Then imagine that for decades most of the world continued to recognize the Tories, and NOT to recognize Washington, etcetera. That was the status of affairs before we recognized Beijing (Peking at the time) in 1979.

Do you think that might annoy the folks governing the bulk of the country under our shiny new Constitution?

Now imagine the world SLOWLY coming to recognize Washington as the government of the United States, while a handful of holdouts continue to recognize the Tories in Maine as governing the entire continent. That is the status of China/Taiwan today.

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Why does the US have such a big issue with Taiwan? It’s not like we have domestic issues we need to address.

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wutangfinancial

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Pretty sure he was being facetious brah