Timeline for Does the Republic of China (Taiwan) have any chance at regaining control of mainland China?
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| Dec 19, 2021 at 18:30 | comment | added | vsz | @Readin : this means that the more likely outcome in the case the PRC became more democratic, is that they recognize Taiwan as a different country, and won't even try re-uniting. Just as Germany doesn't try re-uniting with Austria, despite having a common language and similar culture. | |
| Nov 5, 2018 at 15:20 | comment | added | liftarn | The question is in desperate need of some pruning of irrelevant comments. | |
| Nov 5, 2018 at 11:57 | answer | added | Arijeet Patil | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 1, 2017 at 5:03 | comment | added | Readin | @Bregalad To clarify because this is often misunderstood, the languages of China are indeed languages in that they are not mutually intelligible even those many of them are from the same language family. To suggest that the Han are all the same and all speak "Chinese" is like saying Europeans are all the same and all speak "European". | |
| Jul 1, 2017 at 4:59 | comment | added | Readin | @Bregalad I wasn't referring to the aborigines. The 94% Han do not all have the same mother tongue. The mother tongue of most Taiwanese is Hokkien. A significant fraction have Hakka as their mother tongue. While a few Chinese also have one of these as their mother tongue the overwhelming majority do not. It's true that when the Chinese took over Taiwan after WWII they started making everyone learn Mandarin and that it is now a common language for both China and Taiwan, people still learn their mother tongue first. It's not like Germany which had a long history of everyone speaking German. | |
| Jun 27, 2017 at 18:36 | comment | added | Bregalad | @Readin Yeah but native Taiwanese make up a 6% of population so the analogy still work for the 94% of han chinese living on the island (although I fully admit it's quite different from Germany). | |
| Jun 27, 2017 at 18:00 | comment | added | Readin | A problem with the analogy to Germany used in the question is it doesn't fit with how Taiwanese see the situation. Germany was divided for a mere 40 years. Korea for a mere 60 years. Taiwan has been ruled separately from China for 112 of the past 117 years. While there is a single common mother tongue uniting Germany and a single common mother tongue uniting Korea, The mother tongue of most Taiwanese is different from the mother tongues of most Chinese. While the government that showed up from China to take over Taiwan wanted to retake China, it has never been the dream of the Taiwanese. | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 21:48 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPolitics/status/614550903702556676 | ||
| S Jun 21, 2015 at 18:09 | history | suggested | abcd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 21, 2015 at 3:17 | comment | added | user1530 | Minor nitpick: though China is the highest producer of CO2 in total, they are quite far down the list when measured per-capita. There are also some countries with much higher pollution issues. As for the question, I suppose there's always a chance. How reasonable would be open to opinion, I think. | |
| Jun 20, 2015 at 22:19 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Ok, so from that point of view, you would say that in the 1990 German reunification, the BRD gained control over the DDR but not vice versa. | |
| Jun 20, 2015 at 21:56 | comment | added | Bregalad | @NateEldredge Not really, unless the new state keeps it's "republic of China" name and the flag and other national symbols (anthem, etc...) | |
| Jun 20, 2015 at 21:52 | answer | added | Ronald Kunenborg | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jun 20, 2015 at 21:26 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Isn't it sort of a matter of definition? If mainland China becomes more democratic, it's not inconceivable that they could someday have a government that was sufficiently liberal to reconcile with Taiwan. Then eventually, there might be mutual agreement between the governments to reunify. Would that count as "Taiwan gains control over mainland China"? | |
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| Jun 20, 2015 at 20:29 | history | edited | Bregalad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 20, 2015 at 18:16 | answer | added | gabriele | timeline score: 27 | |
| Jun 20, 2015 at 17:21 | history | asked | Bregalad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |