A very brief history of Taiwan:
- came under full Chinese control in 17th Century
- gave up the island to Japan in 1895 after losing the Sino-Chinese war
- control reverted to China in 1945 after WW2 - United Nations agreement
Taiwan has been recognised by only 13 of 193 countries in the United Nations including economic and military giants such as Belize, Guatemala, Holy See, St Lucia, St Kitts etc.
Whether China should seek to impose their will on a bit of the world which otherwise seems to operate successfully as an independent democracy is questionable, but Chinas claim to sovereignty is not without substance.
The failure to resolve the issue one way or the other over several decades, and that most of the world has not formally recognised Taiwan evidences a sort of tacit acceptance of the ambiguity.
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