In what way do you think Taiwan and Tibet are parts of China?
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Taiwan and Tibet are only "part of China" if you believe the mythology and pseudo-history spread by the Chinese Communist Party. \n\nDoes China have some sacred "right" to control every region where people speak Chinese or identify themselves as ethically-Chinese? If so, then England can take "back" the USA, Canada, Austailia and New Zealand. Spain has a right to attack Mexico, Cuba, Texas, etc. Or?  \n\nConcerning Taiwan specifically, the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) has never at any time controlled Taiwan in any way or form. \n\nDuring the last decades of the last (Qing) imperial dynasty, the power of the central government was finally extended far enough to bring some degree of administrative control to some areas of Taiwan. That regime, however, was NOT the present PRC government, but rather the old, feudal regime that was overthrown in the 1911 revolution --a decade before the formation of the Chinese Communist party.\n\nSo, Taiwan may be said to have "belonged" in the past to the previous imperial Chinese regime, but to say that Taiwan today belongs to the PRC would be like saying Chechnya, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Lithuania and other (presently) independent nations "belong" to Russia, because the previous imperial Russian regime had at one time extended its control to those regions several generations ago.\n\nThe PRC devotes incredible economic and diplomatic resources to try to restrict Taiwan's international and diplomatic "space", and to spread misleading dis-information to the world and especially to its own citizens on the real issues. \n\nThe two major parties in the legislature are the DPP and the KMT. The KMT is the party of the late dictator Chiang Kai-Shek. They are trying to keep China happy, hoping it will give them advantages in the event that China gains control of Taiwan in the future. The DPP is by far the more patriotic and democratic of the two parties, and promotes the development of a Taiwan-centered national consciousness.\n\nTaiwan is now one of the most open societies in the world, and certainly in Asia. High standards of education, multi-party democracy, free press, freedom to protest. Taiwanese of all political strips enjoy protesting. I have attending quite a few very large street demonstrations in the last few years. Some of them are celebratory and some of them are the rowdy and angry kind, but all are peaceful and no one gets hurt. The police are there, not to hinder the demonstrations but only in case a fight breaks out, just as in Europe or USA.\n\nIs it this kind of freedom that PRC leaders are afraid might spread to China?
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You've included such interesting background information in your question. I wish I had a better answer.\n\nI only know half a dozen Tibetans. Five of them despise China, and one professes ambivalence toward China. But I certainly don't think they represent all Tibetans. \n\nYou might try posing your question in a forum that is likely to attract more Tibetans & Tibetan scholars, such as one or more of the discussion groups listed in the Tibet section of this page:\nhttp://www.case.edu/artsci/asia/asiamail.html\n(scroll down near the bottom)
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1.  a buffer zone for the core state - Tibet provides the buffer with India; Mongolia provides the buffer with much of Russia - relatively weak neighbors (Laos, for example) provide part of the buffer\n\n2.  all Chinese under one rule (includes Taiwan) - and international respect for the One China policy\n\n3.  trade surplus\n\n4.  leadership of the third world - friendship with African nations is part of this\n\n5.  respect from other nations and cultures (US, Japan) - includes Japanese admission of guilt for WWII actions
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No.  China also believed they owned Tibet.  The communists failed to capture Taiwan, tough luck.
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i think the USA can not do anything about it,because taiwan AGREE to unify with mainland,it's taiwan's will\n besides most of the countries in the world don't support the indepentence of taiwan
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Taiwan is not an independent country (at least not yet).  It is part of China but it's location is not in mainland China. Just because it is not in the mainland, it doesn't mean it is independent. Even though Taiwan is part of China,they have different government. This is what happens in Hong Kong now.  Hong Kong went back to China in 1997 but Hong Kong has its own government and not under to one from mainland China.  This situation is called one country, two ruling system.
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Taiwan,probably the city of Taipei
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Its good that India keeps supporting the Tibetan exiles, but Tibet's days have been numbered... July 1 to be exact.  This is when the new railway will be open, forever linking China with Lhasa.  As it becomes cheaper for chinese to migrate into tibet, they will, and if ever later Tibet is given the chance to vote for its freedom, it will be majority Chinese immigrants.\n\nI have never been to Tibet, but I have met some tibetans, and there are mixed feelings about the relationship with China.  Some feel strongly about independence, human rights, and the sort.  But some argue that China has helped the Tibetans better integrate into the modern world, better education, better economic situation.\n\nI really don't like China's policy of forcing trading partners to agree to the "One-China Policy" which denounces Tibetan, Taiwanese, or Xinjiang independence.  China's just so big and has so many people that it can produce cheaper than anyone else.  Our western countries, the "beacons of democracy" of the world, would rather have cheap chinese products than stand up for the freedom of Tibet ("Xizang province of China"), East Turkestan ("Xinjiang province of China"), and Taiwan
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India is considered a part of Asia.  It is not a continent by itself.\n\nThe Ural mountains separate Europe and Asia.  With a continuous land mass, you have to designate something as the boundary, and this is the way they did it centuries ago.
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Taiwan and Vatican City. As the source says, that depends on whether or not you consider Taiwan a country.
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ARUNACHAL PRADESH IS INTEGRAL PART OF INDIA.  CHINA SHOULD RETURN OUR LAND WHICH IS UNDER ITS CONTROL AFTER 1962 WAR.
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taiwan is an idependant country however china refuses this and still believes taiwan is part of china
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Dude, Laos is in Asia it is bordered by Vietnam to the east and Tialand to the west. you've got Cambodia to it's south and China to the north, it's landlocked.
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Yehh.. i have actually! The main reason being that I'm FROM Singapore.. hehe. \nOk lame, but hey.. I'm a fellow Singaporean so you'll cut me some slack right?\nI know where its located of course.. and no, its nowhere near China peeps!\nAlways wondered why even as Singapore is becoming an increasingly reknowned country, many still dunno where its truly located. \nGood question to poll whether ppl still think Singapore is a part of China, Jason!  :)
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American position: Where is tibet?\n\ncool another war, we will learn another country in geography
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During 1961 China attacked India and acquired part of Kashmir and NEFA (presently Arunachal Pradesh). Apart from that Pakistan (which was occupied by Pakistan during 1948) gave portion of Kashmir (known as Aksai Chin) to China.\n\nThis is how China is holding major part of Kashmir.
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India. It is a democracy and China is a dictatorship. Simple as that.