China Taiwan conflict?

Question

I am chinese from mainland China. i have always believed Taiwan is part of china. However i like to look at a situation from different perspectives.
Why does Taiwan want to be independent from China?
What are the benifits for becoming their own country?
Is the whole China V.s. Taiwan animocity reasonable?
Why is taiwan claiming its not part of china when its goverments name is "republic of china"?
Since china is turning more democratic and capitalist by the day, is the difference in goverment really the reason for this conflict?

I asked alot so u dont have to answer all of them some feed back would be nice

and pliz dont comment on this if u dont understand the situation. thx for ur comments ,,\/(^.~)

Answer 1

China has so many American dollars, that they will just buy the right to invade Taiwan.

Answer 2

The Republic of China (Taiwan) was a part of mainland China until the end of WWII when Chinese people who did not want to live under communist rule fled to Taiwan and declared independence from mainland China and became part of the British colonial territories and became protected from invasion by the British military and their own military.
Republic of China applied to China and Taiwan until the split.
Taiwan took the name Republic of China,but changed it after communist China took the name also.
Taiwan does not want to return to mainland China because the people will lose the freedoms they have and they fear the Chinese govt. will take away their prosperity.
Taiwan also made it easier for foreign countries to do business with mainland China also.
As I understand the situation now,Taiwan is to become a part of mainland China again,but China jeopardized the situation when it held naval maneuvers near Taiwan.
I can't say how much "democracy" China has based on news reports,but the "capitalist"comes from foreign countries being allowed to invest and produce goods in China under control of the govt.
This is sort of a nutshell overview,there are a lot of things you mentioned in your question that factor into this.

Answer 3

Taiwan wants to be independent because the original Chinese leadership fled China and the anti-communists and their descendants now control that island instead of the original population. They have been closely tied to the US for decades (since the US used to ignore mainland China) and their economy has been relatively free, like Hong Kong.

Taiwan is operating with political and economic independence, but they are afraid to provoke China, and they don't want to reject all their original ties to China.

There are still MAJOR differences in political and economic systems. China's legislature has one party and does not meet often -- Taiwan has competitive politics control all actions.

Answer 4

it is a long story.. To cut it short, Taiwan want it own autonomy. If taiwan is part of china which it is, part of the income from taiwan economy will be handed over to China.

Answer 5

its interesting how u asked and phrased the question. Lets put it this way why not? The animosity is not reasonable but why not sign an agreement the way Southern and Northern Sudan did and if it dazn't work let them be? Some benfits may include them having a say in how to distribute their own resources and havin a say in affairs central to them.....am just saying.

Answer 6

Taiwanese do not want to be communist. They also do not want to make $36 a month wages. The people of Taiwan have much more freedoms. Taiwan is Republic of China. The other is People's Rebublic of China.

Answer 7

On October 25, 1945, the Chinese military government unilaterally and illegally proclaimed that Taiwan was "restored to the fatherland." nO ONE ASKED THE PEOPLE THOUGH

During the 1945-46 period, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (predecessor to the CIA) secretly conducted a poll around the island and found that the Formosan people strongly favored U.S. trusteeship and political affiliation with the United States. sO THEY SAY - BUT HEY A SECRET POLL? gET REAL.

The New York Times reported that if given a chance, the overwhelming majority of Taiwanese would make the U.S. their first choice, with the next largest group favoring Japan, but almost none for China. Well with the CIA doing the polling are we surprised.

In February-March, 1947, an island-wide protest and small-scale armed uprising broke out. Chiang Kai-shek ordered his troops to fire, which resulted in the massacre of tens of thousands of Formosans, most of whom were innocent members of the elite, including lawyers, professors, physicians, politicians, journalists, college students, and WWII veterans. So thats how you get to be a dictator.

Months later, Dr. Thomas Liao, an American-educated Formosan politician, presented a petition to General Albert Wedemeyer, proposing that Taiwan be placed under U.S. trusteeship, to be followed by a plebiscite as to the permanent status of the island. Four options were listed, one of which was "U.S. statehood for Taiwan." So hello US puppet... not a good recipe for future

In the 1940s and 1950s, many Formosans and Americans advocated U.S. trusteeship for Taiwan or American occupation of the island. The U.S. Government was of two minds, and did not know just what to do about Taiwan. Well Taiwan had no oil or uranium so the US didn' really care

Prof. John K. Fairbank of Harvard, a renowned China expert, proposed in the fifties that Taiwan become a state of the United States. His plan failed partly because he reached the wrong persons for cooperation. Anywa, Hawaii was nicer so the US opted for that island - and it was not so far.

In late December, 1949, Chiang Kai-shek led a shattered army and a horde of Chinese refugees to occupy Taiwan after he lost China to the Communists. He installed his government-in-exile on Taiwan, whose international legal status was still undetermined. So taiwan was better than nothing after all.

The U.S. Government did not know how to deal with the newly-planted regime or authorities on Taiwan. On June 25, 1950, the Korean War broke out. Without delay, the Truman Administration ordered the U.S. Seventh Fleet to neutralize the Taiwan Strait, sent military advisers to Taiwan, and declared that Taiwan's status would remain undetermined for a while and would be settled sometime in the future. So the US did not want Taiwan but no one else was going to have it either, just incase in future they found Oil there...

To counter the Communist threat, the U.S. Government decided to accept Chiang Kai-shek's government-in-exile as its surrogate or agent in Taiwan, although the U.S. never intended to recognize Chiang's sovereignty claim over the island. Sound familair, nutcase kills thousands, becomes dictator and then US support him....

Comprehensive aid and assistance from the United States started to roll in and help Taiwan rise up from the wartime ruins and the misrule of the Chinese military government.

In 1958, Communist China launched an attack on Quemoy, an offshore island fortress under Chiang's control. China reasserted that Taiwan was Chinese territory and accused Washington of "occupying" Taiwan and "interfering in China's internal affairs." The U.S. Government repudiated by saying that Taiwan had been liberated by American forces during WWII, implying that China was in no position to challenge America's military and political presence in Taiwan.

In 1979, Washington severed its official ties with the Chiang regime but reaffirmed Taiwan as its protectorate under the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA).

In the communiques between the U.S. and Communist China, the U.S. acknowledged the Chinese position that "there is but one China, and that Taiwan is part of China." The U.S. Government, nevertheless, never meant to recognize Communist China's sovereignty claim in any legal document with binding force under international law.

In early 1988, Chiang Kai-shek's son and heir died, bringing the Chiang Dynasty and its four decades of "white terror" under martial law to an end. During the Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian Administrations, Taiwan was unofficially declared a sovereign and independent state on several occasions, but the Chinese Communist government kept claiming Taiwan as an inalienable part of China, and the U.S. Government kept denying Taiwan as a de jure independent political entity.

In 1996, the U.S. government ordered two carrier battle groups to come to Taiwan's rescue as China conducted a menacing "missile test." The show of force was part of a U.S. commitment to fulfill its obligations under the TRA. Taiwan by now had spent a large part of its foreign revenue fortune earned by hard working men and women by buying US weapons to protect itself from mainland china becasue the US encourafed the split for 40 years...

Finally in about 2006 someon ehad the sense to say lets get real, Taiwan was investing in Shanghai massively and coudl not travel directly still... now that tarde ties are recognised and the mutual benefits are flowing, now that China has shown it can operate HK OK, maybe there is hope for peace. what a pity that Beijing screwed up in TianmanSquare....