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[133] There are also those from the PRC who informally refer to Taiwan as a country. [134] South Africa delegates once referred to Taiwan as the "Republic of Taiwan" during Lee Teng-hui's term as President of the ROC. [135] In 2002, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City, referred to Taiwan as a country. [136]
Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. Some have special names particular to poetic diction or other contexts. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any languages that are predominant or official, or ...
Taiwan, [II] [i] officially the Republic of China (ROC), [I] is a country [26] in East Asia. [l] The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Sea in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
Beijing has offered Taiwan a "one country, two systems" model similar to Hong Kong, which promised the city a high degree of autonomy, though no major political party in Taiwan supports that.
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The main island of Taiwan, sometimes called Formosa, holds the great bulk of the population as well as the largest city/capital Taipei, but Taiwan writ large actually consists of 166 islands, some ...
The Republic of Formosa was a short-lived republic [1] [2] that existed on the island of Taiwan in 1895 between the formal cession of Taiwan by the Qing dynasty of China to the Empire of Japan in the Treaty of Shimonoseki and its being taken over by Japanese troops.
Paris Club, a group of major creditor countries whose officials meet ten times a year in the city of Paris, with the intent to find coordinated and sustainable solutions to the payment difficulties experienced by debtor countries. PIGS, also PIIGS, the economies of the countries of Portugal, Greece, Spain, Italy and/or Ireland.