How Did the Republic of China End Up on an Island 🇹🇼?
Foreword: This was originally written on Wednesday September 27, 2023. I'm finally posting the next entry on my series on China and Taiwan 🇨🇳🇹🇼. This one is a bit of a continuation of the conversation that I had started in the previous one, which you can go read here . It talked about the confusing legal status of Taiwan 🇹🇼, how it's not recognized as a legitimate sovereign country by the majority of the international community, and doesn't have a seat in the UN 🇺🇳, because it's official name is the Republic of China, and there can only be one nation state in the China seat, and it's currently occupied by the People's Republic of China 🇨🇳. And yet, despite all that, Taiwan 🇹🇼 is functionally an independent country. It has its own government separate from China 🇨🇳, it has its own laws, it has its own military, has its own currency, it has its own passports, it has everything that an independent sovereign country would have, and yet it isn't re...