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The capital is Taipei.
When the People's Republic of China was established on the Chinese mainland in 1949, Chinese nationalists fled to the island of Taiwan. Since that occurrence, there has been a dispute over whether Taiwan is part of China or a separate, sovereign country.
Taiwan News was created in 1949.
The island of Taiwan is covered under the constitution of the Republic of China. The constitution has been in effect since 1949 and made China one of the biggest paper democracies in the world.
The Soviet Union had been in existence since 1917 and Stalin had been in control of it since 1924. By 1933, FDR thought that it was appropriate to recognize that that country had a functioning government. The same thing happened after Communist China had governed the mainland from 1949. Nixon recognized that it was a stable government even though the US preferred to deal with the government on Taiwan, which still claimed to be the legitimate government of all of China. In 1933 there was no other body that claimed to be the legitimate government of Russia, so it was not an issue.
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Taiwan Provincial Museum was created in 1949.
New Taiwan dollar was created in 1949.
Old Taiwan dollar ended in 1949.
Taiwan has not declared independence, it's official title is Republic of China and the ROC government considers Taiwan to be a part of China (region) not controlled by the communists.
Since the Peoples Republic of China(PRC) has never had actual control of Taiwan, Taiwan does not need to claimed independce from the PRC. Following Japan's victory over the Qing Dynasty in the first Sino-Japanese war, Taiwan was ceded to Japan under the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895. The Qing Dynasty was overthrown and Republic of China(ROC) was established in mainland China in 1912. At the end of World War II in 1945, Japan surrendered and gave up Taiwan. Meanwhile, because the Chinese Civil War between the ROC and the Communist Party of China is in progress, there was no appropriate representative government of China. As a result, to whom Taiwan should belong to after WWII was never legally decided. However, the ROC lost the civil war and its government fled to Taiwan in 1949. The Communist forces took control of China and founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the same year. Since then, China and Taiwan remained seperated.The PRC is now commonly knowned as China and the ROC is now commonly knowned as Taiwan.