Who did Taiwan gain their independence from?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

in the 1940s, Chinese Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek fought a civil war with Communist revolutionary Mao Tse-tung, the man eventually responsible for the deaths of up to 70,000,000 Chinese. After their truce to fight the Japanese in what would be called World War 2 was over, the Communist forces, who had been stockpiling weapons and allowing the Nationalist forces to do the majority of the fighting, launched a full-on offensive against the Nationalists, eventually driving them and many of their families out of mainland China onto the island of Formosa. After Mao took power, he claimed (and the Mainland Chinese contend to this day) that the Nationalists on Formosa, later renamed Taiwan, were a "rogue province," while the Taiwanese government asserts that it is the rightful, exiled government of mainland China.

Obviously, this creates a foreign policy nightmare, since Taiwan is a much more free and prosperous society, in line with historic US principles of liberty, but the US government has long been friendly to Beijing's Communist Politburo, who still insist that the US recognize Taiwan as belonging to China. Though Communist China has, in the past, participated both indirectly and indirectly in military operations in its sphere of influence, such as in Korea and Vietnam, and it currently oppresses minority groups such as Tibetans, it is unlikely that China would actually make a serious move on tiny Taiwan, unless the US's position were to change, or China were able to threaten the US financially.

Answer 3

Now despite China being on the rise economically, it is politically 'limited' and by that I mean freedoms are sacrificed. In China many people can't complain about working conditions. Now when we look at Taiwan, which is a Democratic Republic. So going under to Single Party(You don't get to vote whose in-charge) is kind of a no-no. But officially Taiwan doesn't want to be independent, because Taiwan claims to be China, but they don't officially claim they are free as the Chinese military would probably pound the poor island.

So to sum it up

• China isn't a democracy/republic, Taiwan is.
• Taiwan has more or less changed culturally to China, its a capitalist state.
• Who wants to give up their freedom? I mean c'mon?
• Other examples of peoples wanting to be independent and giving a big f*ck you to China?
• Tibetan monks, they don't even have the right to protest.

Answer 4

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