Or Taiwan becomes communist. It won't take long judging from the speed of US decline.
Then they are not PRC Chinese, maybe be they are ROC Chinese or even before ROC. Taiwan is ROC
The world has been hearing about US decline since 1945 - first it was the Soviets, then it was the Japanese with their LEAN engineering and products and now it is China. Every few decades there is a challenger. Best of luck.
Right - they were ethnic Chinese who had been there for generations. But preferential treatment was given only to those with a Taiwanese passport. If I remember correctly, even Japanese and Koreans were given this status.
Yeah, Most of the country do not recognize Taiwan.
But Taiwanese have their own Passport.
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They have a small army. Having strength of around 130k. If you look at the equipments, it looks pretty decent for a good defense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_Army
A decent navy, An air force close to the size of Pakistan. May be a little bit more advanced if you look at the fighters.
Taiwan, according to China is a break away province, which has it's own Private army, Navy and Air force and have their own missiles and still buying stuffs against China's will, And accidentally fired a Supersonic missile at China recently.
Citizens have democratic rights, can vote, hold elections. People have Individual passports etc... They have embassies, or as they call it Taipei - xyz(country) Economic and Cultural center in many countries. You need a visa to go there and you can't apply for Taiwan visa in Chinese embassy, unless you want to troll the Chinese.
So they have nothing to do with PRC , they are more close to ROC since ROC has been around for a hundred years already
Yes, the reason numero uno. You brilliant ***
you got it.
Maybe it is a chicken,lol, as I said, we are not in a hurry for unification ,the time is no right, when China becomes unrivaled in everything, all those things will happen naturally so China's priority is still on development for now.
Ok, you are suggesting they are / were not citizens of PRC. I take your point. I am merely suggesting that for economic and business reason, Taiwanese have been seen as a distinct nationality for many years.
But why Indian government refuses to recognize this reality?
They are ethnic Chinese people and has been part of China for at least a thousand years until the Chinese civil war that broke the country apart but anyway we all know this point now that as long as Taiwan maintains status quo everything will be ok and that's exactly what it is doing
During the 70s and 80s most overseas Chinese had much closer feeling of affinity to ROC( Taiwan) not PRC, they can apply and often being granted for ROC passports but not PRC passports.
It's been like this for 70 years and now it's turn more in our favor each passing day, so we can wait. we had enough power to take over Hong Kong and Macao but we didn't, we waited until the lease was up cause we believed that served our benefits the best.
Scared of serious repercussions and resistance.
