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There are two Governments that claim to be China. If you give recognition to one of those Governments (de facto or otherwise) you can expect repercussions from
by burntbridge 5y ago
There are two Governments that claim to be China.
If you give recognition to one of those Governments (de facto or otherwise) you can expect repercussions from the other, depending on how useful to are to that particular Government of course.
Republic of China (Taiwan's) territorial claims - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan,_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan,_China
- blacksmith_tb 5y agoBut the Taiwanese government wouldn't be able to ban countries that did business with the PRC without cutting themselves off from most of the world? My impression is that they aren't even willing to discuss their own independence too loudly [1] in order to maintain the status quo. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_non-state-to-state_relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_non-state-to-state_rel...
- burntbridge 5y agoTrue. Interesting how independence actually can mean two things in Taiwan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence_movement The Kuomintang do not support the island state concept.