Taiwan

The country nearest Manila is China.

the answer to "how are you" in Taiwanese is "LI HER MA"

Buddhism.

24/5/09

According to the CIA fact file, 90% of people in Hong Kong belong to "eclectic mixture of local religions" (no definition) and therother 10% are Christian.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/hk.html

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When the Portuguese first saw Taiwan, they called it "Formosa". wich means " beautiful island" that's the first name that Taiwan has. Then the aborigines called it "dayuen" which became " Taiwan"

Natural resources on the islands include small deposits of gold, copper, coal, natural gas, limestone, marble, and asbestos. The island is 55% forests and woodland (mostly on the mountains) and 24% arable land (mostly on the plains), with 15% going to other purposes. 5% is permanent pastures and 1% is permanent crops. Those are some of the resources in Taiwan, but they are NOT every single one, just the most important.

The adjective used to describe something or someone of Taiwan is Taiwanese. This can also include peoples of the nearby islands.

From China's perspective, there is only one China in the world. Taiwan has been a part of China for hundreds of years. They speak the same language, celebrate the same festivals, and have almost the same culture.

The present situation of separation between Taiwan and China mainland is the result of Civil War of China(or Liberation War of China 1946-1950). The former government of China, the KMT party government, fled to Taiwan island because of the total defeat in the mainland. Meanwhile, Communist China had no ability to cross the strait to reunite Taiwan island at that time. In China's view, the problem of Taiwan and China not already being reunited is due to interference from the U.S. government. In 1949, the Chinese government announced that Taiwan is a province of China. Since then, all the countries which want to establish a foreign relationship with PRC must recognize that Taiwan's belonging to China. The UN also recognizes that Taiwan belongs to China. In Taiwan's society today, DPP politicians who are absolute supporters of Taiwan's independence are in control, but a number of Taiwanses people believe there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of it. For economic reasons, as well as avoiding war, Taiwan should not be independent. Only the reunification of Taiwan with China will give Taiwan a more broader future. It is advantagous to mainland China that reunification with Taiwan take place because the Taiwanese people speak standard Chinese and know deeply about China. Mastering Chinese will be rather important in the future. So Taiwan maintaining a close relationship with mainland China will be the best what it can be. It isn't that the people or government of Taiwan see no cultural connection between the two countries; it's just that people are reluctant to give up their rights and submit to the rule of an autocratic government.

Also, the threat of force has been made by China, and this certainly doesn't make the mainland seem any more appealing. (Taiwan has also put on military displays on their coast, so both countries are guilty of provoking the other.)

As for the question of whether China has any right to claim Taiwan as its own, I've always thought that the claim made by China is flawed: Taiwan was a part of China in imperial times, and it was part of the Republic of China, but it was never a part of the People's Republic of China. The People's Republic was created by the people's struggle against the KMT, and that struggle never took place in Taiwan. A Communist government is, by definition, supposed to have been chosen by the people, not forced upon them by the Communist government of a neighboring region. For this reason, it seems illogical to suggest that just because it was a part of China's former incarnations, Taiwan should be considered a part of this most recent one. (The same could be said of Tibet.)

July 1, 2003

The North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan.

Hinahanap ko nga ehh saan ba pwede mag hanap?

In Mandarin it would be: xìexìe 謝謝; in Taiwanese dialect something like: dōō hsia.

You mean work or recreation?

In terms of work, Taiwan has transformed from a industrial sector heavy society to a service heavy society, over 70% of the population is employed in what would be classified as service sector.

In terms of industry, Taiwan is most famous for making computer related products. most of the worlds' notebooks and thinks like IPhone are made in Taiwan.

In terms of recreation, Taiwan is pretty big on basketball and baseball, non-sports outdoors recreation is mostly hiking and in recent years bicycles have become very popular again.

The Taiwanese are Chinese and they weren't prohibited from engaging their culture as was the case on the main land. so it stand to reason that it would.

Taiwan, officially called the Republic of China, was originally part of China. After the communist revolution took hold of China, the existing government and those persecuted by the regime, fled the mainland and set up on the island of Taiwan.

Mao then formed the Peoples Republic of China.

Taiwanese

The People's Republic of China recognises Taiwan as one of it's province. While the people from both sides of the sea often refers to each other as 'brothers and sisters'. It is clear however, the officials of Taiwan want it to be an independence country. But if you have lived in China for 10 years like I did, you can clearly see the passion of the 'Taiwaness' to not to be 'Taiwaness'. In the past, when Taiwan was at its peak power, China was still very poor, and this is one of the first reason that caused the officials of Taiwan to wish for independence. However as China is now every powerful, western countries do 'take sides'. For example: US stated it does not recognise Taiwan as a country. To be a globally recognised country, there must be a representitive at the United Nation, Taiwan has no such representitive.

If Taiwan were to take the gamble and cross that line, the argument goes, it will have moved closer to "de jure independence," or legal separation from the mainland, and Beijing would have little choice but to engage it militarily.

And yet, Taiwan has repeatedly "declared" its independence ever since the island's process of democratization began at the end of the last century.

No, Taiwan does not have a command economy; it has a market economy. As of 2014, it is ranked as the 17th-freest economy in the world.

Taiwan is an island which has a different government than the Chinese mainland because the losing non-communist forces during the Chinese civil war fled to Taiwan leaving the communists to take over the mainland. The official title of Taiwan is the 'Republic of China'

Taiwan is an island off the coast of China, so it isn't "bordered" directly by any countries.

However, there is China to the east, Japan and the Koreas to the north, and the Philippines to the south.

No. Currently, the "Republic of China" is Taiwan.

Mainland China is known as the "People's Republic of China".

Japan is known as just "Japan".

Of course, their original names are in their home languages.

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Its a Command Economy!