Why is China consided to be "One Country and two government" but to Taiwan they are "Two countries and ..
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Ok I wouldn't pay attention to the first answer if I were you.  "Acts of treason"???  I think your teacher would ask you to explain "WHAT acts of treason?"\n\nMany people living in Taiwan have ancestral roots in China.  However, Taiwan has its own government, own land, own flag, own culture, etc.  The people of Taiwan would like to define themselves as their own country.  They like their country the way it is and don't want another government "taking over" their land and their way of life.\n\nChina's view is that the majority of Taiwanese are originally from China, so Taiwan should be a part of China.  This is advantageous to China for imperialistic and economic reasons.  Having control of more land and people makes them a more powerful country, and the added benefit for them is that Taiwan is one of the more economically prosperous Asian countries.\n\nNow, the assignment also asks to explain the relationship?  In one word, "tense".  Part of it has to do with the 228 (February 28) massacres, when rising tensions resulted in the Chinese military killing many Taiwanese, targeting especially the educated (professors & students) since those were the main people organizing protests against the Chinese.  As you can expect, there is much resentment from the Taiwanese who survived the massacres.\n\nAdding to the tension were recent war games that China played around Taiwan's coast.  Taiwan's presidential elections were coming up, and China feared that Taiwan would elect someone they didn't like, so they sent war ships to circle Taiwan's coast in an attempt to scare the Taiwanese into voting for someone else.  It didn't work.  The US stepped in to tell China to stop threatening Taiwan, and the Taiwanese elected their president.\n\nThis should get you started on your paper.  You'll have to fill in the details doing your own research.  Be careful of the sources you use, because this is an issue that many Chinese and Taiwanese are passionate about, so you'll come across strongly-worded essays that may be misleading.  It can be confusing but I think your teacher just wants you to show that you have some idea of what's going on in that part of the world.  Good luck.
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It would be as if China told us that Florida doesn't really belong to the U.S. and Floridians got it into their heads that they wanted to separate from us. We would not be too happy about the situation and we would most likely take Florida back by force. Well the Chinese have always felt that Taiwan is a part of China and have never recognized them as independent. But being a democratic country we refuse to let China rush in there and take them by force so whenever China has tried we send ships to block their way. Now that Taiwan is so successful it just burns the Chinese even more and they really want their "state" back and all the wealth it brings. Americans just won't let them and rightfully so.
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Yikes! The U.S. (at least) recognizes Taiwan as a sovereign country and is a great supporter of its president. (Some mainland Chinese are sore losers.)\n\nPresident Chen Shui-bian\n\nVice President Lu Hsiu-lien\n\nHead of Government: Premier (President of the Executive Yuan) Frank Hsieh
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Bound's hubby here:\n\nI am presuming you mean "The People's Republic of China" and not Taiwan. The People's Republic is a Communist country, and does not permit private ownership of firearms. (And yes, in most places air rifles are not considered firearms, but in this instance ... the term applies!)\n\nGood luck!
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China is still oppressive.  It's a paranoid government.  They don't give two craps about the universal rights of anything.
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First off, 90,000 Taiwanese were liquidated by the Nationalist Chinese when they fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing the revolution to the Communists, so the Taiwanese are not in a position to feel anything.\n\nThe Nationalist Chinese until the early 1970's (when President Nixon orchestrated the political recognition of Red China) felt that mainland China was actually a rebellious portion of their country. Nationalist China has long been opposing the idea that Red China is actually China and that they are Taiwan. If Taiwan is now claiming they are an independent country, this is the recognition of a major defeat on their part, but will not protect them from Red aggression in the future. The US Seventh Fleet has always been the only thing maintaining Nationalist liberty.\n\nTo look at this realistically, however, especially now that the USA is stumbling all over itself thinking it is cashing in on Red China enslaving its own people (when in fact we are financing Red Chinese future aggression), Nationalist China will have to spin the independence story very hard for it to be acceptable to their own domestic audience. It may in the end be too much of a political shock, and weaken Nationalist China beyond repair.
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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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Politicly speaking, they are a democracy, and democracies support each other. Another more pragmatic reason is that they act as a counter balance to chinas growing regional influence. look up "balance of power", and think of china and india in asia.
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China, like many other nations in the world, feel that the USA is an arrogant young power which does not realize that the Chinese civilization has been around for quite a while; thousand of years. So they expect the American government to facilitate the creation of a relationship of mutual respect and above all not to meddle in China's sphere of influence.
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Why someone is required to make a comparison between these two countries.........they are two different countries and are distinct in thier identities...No comparison is possible in the countries...if u are talking about the western power's strategy they don't compare the countries they compare thier own advantages and interests associated with countries.... and about distinction that they can't made...when the countries have accepted both the countries there is no question of not distinguishing between the countries..
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because taiwanese doesn't want to be alied with china...\nthey are still pushing hard to be an indepedant country
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192 independent countries are members of the U.N., but that doesn't include the Vatican City - which is technically a country - who have chosen not to join.\n\nThere are 192  different countries that the United States recognizes, but it gets tricky when you talk about Taiwan. There are those that would argue that Taiwan isn't really a coutnry (like China, who claims that it is a Chinese province). \n\nEven though Taiwan was a member of the U.N. up until 1971, it is not recognized as a country because of politcal reasons.  \n\nSo if you count Taiwan as a country (though it isn't internationally recognized as one) and the Vatican City, there would be 193.\n\nTo John C.: You have to remember that when you are counting countries, places that are governed by other countries, like Puerto Rico, the U.K., Bermuda, Palestine and others, don't count because they are actually provinces or colonies.
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historical and geopolitical reasons.  \n\nfirst, during world war 2, the united states found itself allied with the chinese nationalist movement (kuomintang) headed by chiang kai-shek, because they had a common enemy in japan.  american airplanes bombed japanese targets in manchuria in support of kuomintang offensives and the kuomintang provided logistical support to american troops in the region.\n\nafter the war the united states continued to support the kuomintang government during the communist revolution.  mao's communists defeated the kuomintang who retreated to taiwan, where they have remained a powerful political party to this day.  this continued alliance was natural for the US, which believed itself to be engaged in a "global struggle against communism" from the fifties up through '89.\n\nwith wars in korea and vietnam, having an ally in asia was important to maintaining the global reach of the american military.  taiwan is highly dependent on american protection; without american warships lurking in the china sea and US-supplied weapons, they probably would have been overrun long ago.  this has paid off nicely for taiwan, which has reaped considerable economic benefits from the close relationship with the US.\n\nthese days the protection given to taiwan can be seen as one of loyalty, but a more practical reason is that the US government needs allies around the world to conduct its military operations, particularly in areas like the middle east and SE asia.  also, there is a genuine belief in the US that open, democratic societies should be protected and nurtured; so the threat of military reprisal is used in places like israel, taiwan and south korea that would probably otherwise be taken under by hostile neighbors.
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Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895.  Many researchers, commentators, political analysts, etc. say that Taiwan was returned to China in 1945, but that is completely false.  Up until the present day, Taiwan is a territory under the jurisdiction of the United States, and that situation has existed from WWII up to the present day.  (The fact that the USA is the only country in the world with a "Taiwan Relations Act" and that that Act is a domestic law of the USA further confirms this analysis.)\n\nHow did Taiwan come under the jurisdiction of the USA?  The same way that Iraq did -- via "military conquest."   After the Declaration of War against the Empire of Japan on Dec. 8, 1941, all military attacks against Taiwan were conducted by US military forces.  Hence, the United States is/will be the "principal occupying power" of Taiwan.    All legal relationships for Taiwan in the post-WWII era arise from these facts. \n\nWhen the Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered on Oct. 25, 1945, that marked the beginning of the military occupation of Taiwan.  (There was no transfer of sovereignty on that date.) The United States is the "principal occupying power"  and it has delegated the military occupation of Taiwan to the Chinese Nationalists (i.e. ROC).   In Dec. 1949, high officials of the ROC in the mainland fled to Taiwan and became a "government in exile."  Why are they a "government in exile"?  Because as of late 1949, Taiwan is being held under military occupation and has not been transferred to any country.   Thus the ROC is exercising "effective territorial control" over territory where it does not possess sovereignty. \n\nIn late April 1952, the post-war peace treaty came into effect.  Japan renounced the territorial sovereignty of Taiwan, but no recipient country was designated.  Under such circumstances, the territory remains under the jurisdiction of the "principal occupying power,"  which is the United States. \n\nHence, the ROC on Taiwan has the dual roles of  (1) subordinate occupying power beginning Oct. 25, 1945, and (2) government in exile beginning late Dec. 1949.  \n\nThis explanation fully shows why the ROC on Taiwan is treated as an orphan by the international community, although under casual analysis the ROC appears to be a real country.    In fact (obviously) the ROC on Taiwan is not a country, because it does not have 'TITLE" to the territory of "Formosa and the Pescadores." \n\nThe PRC maintains that Taiwan is a part of the PRC based on the Successor Government Theory.  This theory claims that since the ROC obtained the sovereignty of Taiwan on Oct. 25, 1945, and the PRC is the successor goverment to the ROC, so the PRC holds the sovereignty of Taiwan now.  The fatal flaw in this argument is that there was no transfer of sovereignty on Oct. 25, 1945.  \n\n(Why are most people are totally unfamiliar with the style of  reasoning presented above, and the conclusions reached?  It is because they do not research the subjects of the laws of war, territorial cession, international treaty law, etc. and their relationship to military government and military jurisdiction.)
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I think Beijing and Shanghai is more modern than Taipei..\nThere is some places where China is more modern than Taiwan's places but as China is many times larger than Taiwan... It's undoubtedly that China also has a lot of places that still undeveloped...
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The Mainland Chinese government has a division that determines how words will be translated and disseminates it to the schools.  They are very picky about trying to avoid just transliterating the new words the way the Japanese and South Koreans do.  BTW, North Korea has a similar branch of the gov't which is one of the reasons South Koreans and their Northern neighbors sometimes have trouble communicating.