What's the difference between "Taiwan"and "China"?
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i know the answer, but its a long story.\nthe answer is just like the question \nfor what is the difference between USA and UK.\nUSA is created when some british people who dont like the way UK goverment rule,then run/move to other place,to create a new nation.\nand Taiwan is create by chinese people from china who dont like the communist rules/government rules at that time.
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It seems the 2 services are foundamentally the same, but I notice minor differences such as:\n* Taiwan Yahoo! Knowledge+ allows more user choices eg choose how many points to give, how many days to wait when posting a question.\n* Taiwan Yahoo! Knowledge+ provides automatic category suggestion when posting questions, in US Yahoo! Answers you have to choose your own.\n* Yahoo! Answers provides "Save to My Web" and add to My Yahoo!/RSS features.\n\n\nUhm wonder where did you read this news?
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This is a very interesting topic. I'll contribute with a few of the things I have learned in my history studies.\n\nThe Qing dynasty was forced to cede Taiwan (along with certain other regions of mainland China) to Japan when Japan defeated China in a naval war in 1895. When the Japanese surrendered upon their defeat in 1945, control over Taiwan was assumed by the Chinese government currently recognized at that time: The Republic of China -a one-party state led by Chaing Kai-Shek.\n\nAt the time that Japan took over Taiwan, China was only beginning to bring Taiwan under effective central control, and Chinese control had certainly not penetrated very deeply into Taiwanese society. Although most Taiwanese at that time (as they still do today) certainly identified primarily with Chinese culture --but not necessarily a Chinese nation. Their identities were primarily local, and not national in the modern sense. That is, they did not consider themselves citizens of a Chinese nation. They identified primarily with clans, towns, and regions. The same can be said for most people in mainland China at that time. This was one of the main obstacles for leaders like Sun Yat-sen, Mao Zedong and Chian Kai-Shek. These local identities were an obstacle to overcome in their quest to make Chinese people feel part of a Chinese nation. \n\nAs a result of the (2) Opium Wars of the 1840s, China had already been forced to cede coastal territory to Britian, France and Germany. Being defeated by European powers was humiliating, but for cultural reasons, being defeated by Japan was even more humiliating for the Chinese. This was because Chinese considered their culture to be the superior culture in Asia, and being defeated by an inferior Asian culture was therefore more humiliating than being defaeted by a European power.\n\nJapanese took over administration of Taiwan and the other regions. For the first 30 years or so,  the Taiwanese and Chinese living under Japanese control weren't subjected to any greater degree of injustice or exploitation than they would have been under Chinese control. At that time, both China and Taiwan were still pre-modern feudal societies. During WW2, Japanese control became progressively more exploitative. \n\nJapan's war crimes against the civilian population of mainland China are well known. But in Taiwan --although Japanese administration was certainly unfair to Taiwanese-- there were relatively few cases of gross injustices. It was under Japaese control that Taiwan saw its first organized school system, first universities, first mechanized industries, and first railroads, among other modernizations. People were encouraged to learn Japanese, and learning Japanese was obligatory for schoolchildren. \n\nIn China, people have been educated for several generations to hate Japanese and see Japan as an enemy. Most Taiwanese, however, have an overwhelmingly positive opinion of Japan and Japanese culture. This is in large part because during the post-WW2 period, the enemy that Taiwanese were educated to fear was Communist China, so there was no particular reason for the government to encourage hate or fear of Japan.  Also, during this period, Taiwan and Japan developed along similar paths economically and culturaly, and were both open to Western investment and cultural influence. \n\nToday, both Taiwan and Japan have much more in common with each other than with the Peoples Repulic of China. Both are multi-party democracies with freedom of speech, freedom of the press, etc. Both have very open and vibrant civil societies. \n\nChina, unfortunately, is at least a generation behind in terms of cultural and political development.
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I am learning Chinese (Mandarin). I have already studied for five years, with about half of that time spent in Taiwan or China. I enjoy it a lot!
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Puerto Rico is a U.S. Commonwealth ("estado libre asociado" [free associate state]in Spanish).\n\nAs other answerers have already stated Taiwan split from communist China; however, China does not recognize Taiwan's independence and basically considers it to be a rogue province.
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That is a question that is best answered by 23 million Taiwanese. The problem is that China doesn't want them to decide.\n\nTaiwan is China and China is Taiwan, just like football is soccer and soccer is football.
141980
yes ofcourse...Taiwanese poeple also speak Chinese...
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There is no physical difference between Chinese and Japanese.   However the difference is, Chinese people are from China, speak Chinese, and have Chinese culture, similar to Japanese’s but different.  Japanese people are from Japan, speak Japanese, and have Japanese culture, which is similar to Chinese’s, but different.  That’s how we are different form each other, but we do not need to look different in order to be different.  No one goes on about how Australian people look different from people of New Zealand, or German people from Austrians, or English people form French, or Czech people form Slovakian people, do they?  That's because everyone knows they are different even if they may not look different.  Same thing for Japanese and Chinese. \nAs a Japanese person, I get lots of questions about how we look different form Chinese people, and lots of opinions of how they think we look different from each other.  Personally, I find it nonsense.  Japanese are from Japan, Chinese are from China.  That's all.\nBut mind you, China is a big country, and Japan is a long country form North to South.  It is more down to individuals than anything else, but as it is so, if you compare a person from a place in China next to Nepal to a person form Hokkaido, North Japan, occasionally (not always) you may find a slight difference because one's from North and the other's form South.   Same thing can happen if you compare someone from Okinawa, South Japan to someone from North China near Russia.  That may confuse some people and make them think there is a difference between us.  But remember, country borders are man made, and people do not suddenly look different because of that.
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If China wanted to take over Taiwan, there's nothing that anyone, anywhere, could actually do to stop it. The only reason they haven't done so already is because there's no real reason to - if their thinking on this should ever change, Taiwan would be toast, plain and simple.
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no, spoken, they are completely different. \nhowever, if you can read chinese characters, you may be able to decipher some words (written) in either language but only vaguely,,,,,
192220
Taiwan is independent, just constantly intimidated. As for getting formal recognition from communist china of taiwans independence, all it takes is time. Taiwan is a valuable ally and trading partner of the US, and is respected as such. Communist china cannot last as a nation forever. People dream of being free, and when enough of a billion people in china act on there dreams, taiwan wont have a communist bully next door anymore.
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Sadly, there is a pretty good chance that there will be a WWIII.  If you haven't noticed yet, China is building up its military and investing heavily on technology, not for defense purposes in my opinion.  They're preparing for an invasion of Taiwan.  They have said numerous time that if Taiwan declares itself independent from China then it would attack the country of Taiwan.  They cannot attack now because they know if it attacks Taiwan, the U.S. will intervene on behalf of Taiwan.  China in return is preparing itself for a war with the U.S and Taiwan.
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From the beginning of the twentieth century, Taiwan has been separate from China.  First, as Formosa, it was a colony of Japan.  After WWII, Taiwan was liberated from the Japanese, and four years later China's nationalist government was defeated by the Communists.  They fled to Taiwan and established their government-in-exile in Taipei.  Still today, Taiwan's official name is The Republic of China.  Taiwan's government favors eventual reunification with China, on the condition that China is a democratic nation.\n\nTaiwan views itself as independent from Beijing's sovereignty, and most countries support this reality.  Taiwan is not recognized as a sovereign nation in the UN because of China's "One-China Policy", which states that any nation wanting trade and political relations with China cannot openly support Taiwanese independence.  China views Taiwan as a "renegade province."
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Taiwan is a beautiful island nation, often referred to with names such as:\n-"Ilha Formosa - Beautiful Island"\n-"Island of Prosperity"\n-"Silicon Island"\n-"The California of Asia"\n\nTaiwan is well known for its dominance in the world IT hardware industry. The majority of all the world's notebooks, LCD monitors, PDAs, wireless routers, CDs and a whole array of computer parts are produced by Taiwanese companies.\nOne of the "Four Asian Tigers", Taiwan is ranked as the most competitive nation in all of Asia.\n\nTaiwan is extremely convenient. I could almost testify that you can stand anywhere in Taipei, and see at least 1 convenience store (7-11, Family Mart, etc.) In addition, Taiwan boasts the world tallest building and ALL of Taipei city is to become wireless, meaning that you can go online anywhere you want in the city - as long as you have a laptop (which are amazingly affordable in Taiwan).\n\nIn addition, Taiwan is known for its beautiful scenery. Taiwan's landscape is widely varied, it has the tallest mountain range in Far East Asia, to some of the finest beaches for surfing in the world.\n\nFood in Taiwan is excellent. From authentic Chinese cuisine from all regions of China, to local Taiwanese dishes, to the fresh seafood, to a wide array of tropical fruits... - taste buds just love Taiwan.\n\nHowever, Taiwan also has various faults. Lying on a faultline, the country is often hit by earthquakes. In summer, the island is swept by typhoons.\nPollution is a problem in some areas, but is getting better as more and more low-end industries shift their production to developing countries such as China, Vietnam and India.\n\nA major factor that influences Taiwan also, is communist China.\nThe People's Republic of China (PRC), which has never had any control over Taiwan, claims that Taiwan is part of the PRC, and is willing to use war to claim the island.\nHowever, what China has difficulty grasping is that, as a thriving democracy, Taiwan is governed by its people, and any issues regarding national sovereignty can only be decidedly democratically through the people of Taiwan alone.\n\nIn conclusion, I think that Taiwan is an amazing country, but most of all, I think that it is a place for everyone. \n\nDo you like:\n- bustling cities? \nTaiwan has them.\n\n- picturesque countryside? \nTaiwan has that.\n\n- warm weather? \nTaiwan has that.\n\n- convenience?\nTaiwan has that.\n\n- technology? \nTaiwan is called Silicon Island for a reason!\n\n- history? \nTaiwan is home to the National Palace Museum, which houses one of the largest collections of Chinese artifacts in the world.\n\n- parties on the beach?\nSure! Bring your surfboard too - hit the waves in the day, party at night!\n\n- politics?\nIt is impossible to understand the China/Taiwan conflict unless you have visited both places.\n\n- different cultures?\nThe first people to come to Taiwan were the native aborigines.\nThen came the Dutch.\nThen came the Spanish.\nThen came the Hoklo and Hakka people.\nThen came the Japanese.\nThen came the Americans who kicked the Japanese out.\nThen came the mainland Chinese.\nThen came the thousands of foreign investors from all over the world.\nThen came the Vietnamese, Thais and Filipinos to get better paying jobs than back home.\n\nLike I said, Taiwan, a beautiful country with something for everyone.
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This is the official site of People's Republic of China:\nhttp://www.china.org.cn/english/index.htm\n\nI believe this is the site for the institute of standardization, but it's in Chinese:\n\nhttp://www.cnis.gov.cn/
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Are you talking about China?  What exactly are you talking about?
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Taiwan and Vatican City. As the source says, that depends on whether or not you consider Taiwan a country.