is taiwan a country? or a part of china ?

Answer 1

It's a political issue still being dealt with. The people of Taiwan believe they're an independent country from China, and China refuses to see it that way. China still thinks Taiwan is part of the mainland.

China has also threatened to take action against Taiwan if Taiwan makes any steps towards official independence. This is why Taiwan isn't a member of the United Nations.

Answer 2

Today, the Republic of China (Taiwan) is a separate nation, but with few countries recognizing it. The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) considers Taiwan to be a province in rebellion. The mainland actually never paid much attention to Taiwan during the period the Dutch and other Western powers occupied the island. China (the old, imperial China) only declared Taiwan a province in the 1700s. Last year, the PRC passed a law allowing for use of force to bring Taiwan back if Taiwan makes any efforts at formal declaration of sovernity. In reality, with the US Navy nearby, the PRC is content (if not happy) with the status quo - Taiwan as a independent state which will someday rejoin the mainland. Many of my friends on Taiwan are looking at what happens in Hong Kong to see if the "One Country - Two Systems" can work and if the PRC continues to allow Hong Kong to act as a real Special Administrative Region (SAR). Were the PRC to clamp down on Hong Kong, I think many Taiwan citizens will rethink unification.

By the way, many native people on the island ("Taiwanese") never welcomed the KMT nor the influx of mainlanders in the late 1940s. They feel Taiwan is "theirs" - neither a part of the PRC or of the ROC.

Answer 3

Historically, Taiwan is a province of China. The fact that Taiwan consider itself as an independent country is still highly disputed. Even the United Nations doesn't have Taiwan as a member nation. Taiwan can only be an independent country if China grant independence to Taiwan, in the same manner as the former British Empire granted independence to its colonies. But unless China officially grant independence to Taiwan, then it is still a Chinese province. The best that China can do is to give Taiwan the autonomy of self-rule without having to be a separate nation, similar to what China did to Hongkong.

Answer 4

It really depends on who you ask and it what circumstance.
Offically Taiwan is part of China. Unoffically it is its own country.
This is a very complicated thing. Very few countries in the world reconize Taiwan as a formal country, yet most countries have many economic ties (as if it were a country) with Taiwan.

Answer 5

Taiwan has its own government and is run by a democratic system. However, China still insists that it is part of Taiwan. You could say it is in the same category as Canada, or other countries that are really still tied to England. (And if anyone disagrees, than explain the Governor General of Canada to me. And how the Canadian government overturned a public tax vote by going to the Governor General asking to have new seats in government, allowing them to pass a tax law after it was voted out.)

Answer 6

Legally, Taiwan is a part of China, but a de-facto country ruled by a government independent of the mainland Chinese government.

Answer 7

The Island of Taiwan is a part of The Republic of China (ROC) an Independant Country.

The Other country is known as the People's Republic of China (PRC)
There is no country called China today.

Answer 8

Taiwan's status as an independent nation has yet to be resolved. Many of the people from Taiwan (and others) like to think Taiwan is a country, but the majority of countries do NOT recognize it diplomatically as a country. Only some 25 nations actually recognize it as a country, and they receive money from Taiwan for this recognition.

Answer 9

surely, Taiwan is a country

it is not governmental from China
Taiwan has its president and legislative
Taiwan is different from China
China is artful and no human rights

and why does United Nations not admit Taiwan is independent out of China?

because of
our country want to be friendly with China
China is a big market it has 1 billion 3 hundred million of people

if the US accept Taiwan is independent and Taiwan will be a COUNTRY
and you know , in 1996 , at that time Taiwan and China had some action of before War
if Taiwan launched War to China, maybe Taiwan would win!

because China didn't have so much armings that time

if Taiwan launched War , it would be a certainly independent COUNTRY

Answer 10

Taiwan aka R.O.C. ; republican of china, is a part of China. There are two major different political parties in Taiwan. The blue party, kmt and the green party dpp. KMT are the ones that want to keep the name of ROC but the dpp party want the country go Independence and go by the name of Taiwan only. Now, in the recent weeks, (Feb. of 2007) Taiwan changed alot of its banks, gas stations, post offices names. Its kinda hard to explain it, but the dpp party only changed the names in Chinese. as far as in English, they are scared to change the name because, once if Taiwan does classify as an independence country, rumors are, china will attact Taiwan. so the dpp party are playing and walking in the very grey line. they don't want to piss off china too much.