• @[email protected]
    3•10 days ago

    Not even Taiwan claims to be a country though. They claim to be the sole legitimate government of China, hence their actual name, The Republic Of China, and not “republic of taiwan” or some other thing.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•9 days ago

      While it was true for a long time, I don’t think Taiwan expects to get China back anymore. It’s more not to start WW3 for the last 30+ years

    • @[email protected]English
      1•8 days ago

      Not even Taiwan claims to be a country though. They claim to be the sole legitimate government of China, hence their actual name, The Republic Of China,

      Isn’t that, by definition, calling yourself a country?

      • @[email protected]
        1•7 days ago

        Wrong phrasing on my part.

        No matter which side you ask, the Republic Of China (ROC) or the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Taiwan isn’t a country, it is a region of the country of China. Saying that Taiwan is a country satisfies neither the ROC nor the PRC’s claims