• markr@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The PRC has always maintained that Taiwan is part of China and will be eventually incorporated back into PRC. (The ROC had the same position, but with respect to the mainland until 1991.) Taiwan was in fact part of China from 1683 until the Japanese started their imperial colonization of China and Korea, taking Taiwan in 1895. It would be news and a really big deal if the PRC stopped making that claim.

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      11 months ago

      … will be eventually incorporated back into PRC

      It has never been part of the PRC.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah. This is a dance that the USA and China have been doing for half a century. The agreed upon resolution has been that the USA doesn’t declare that Taiwan is a sovereign nation and China doesn’t invade in the near term.