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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]
The Nationalists were defeated by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War. [33]: 125 The ROC government retreated to Taiwan.[33]: 125 In August 1949, the United States suspended the ROC's involvement in the Fulbright Program because the fleeing government was no longer able to make payments on the surplus war material it had purchased from the United States after the end of World War II.
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.
Taiwan says it is already an independent country called the Republic of China, its official name. Beijing describes Taiwan as its "core of core interests", regularly denouncing any shows of ...
The term "Taiwan independence movement" is thus somewhat imprecise inasmuch its main representative, the Democratic Progressive Party, does not support any change in the constitutional name of the Taiwanese state for the foreseeable future; they generally view the modern Republic of China as synonymous with a sovereign Taiwanese state; the ...
— Laura Rosenberger, chair of the American Institute in Taiwan, a nonprofit, private corporation established under a 1979 law to manage America’s unofficial relations with Taiwan.
The Taiwan Relations Act (TRA; Pub. L. 96–8, H.R. 2479, 93 Stat. 14, enacted April 10, 1979) is an act of the United States Congress.Since the formal recognition of the People's Republic of China, the Act has defined the officially substantial but non-diplomatic relations between the United States of America and Taiwan (Republic of China).
Only 13 countries now formally recognise Taiwan after Honduras ended ties last month. Taiwan's government says that as the Republic of China is a sovereign country and it has a right to state-to ...