Taiwan is Chinese for Dummies (2025 version)
by Luís Garcia
ANALOGIES
Taiwan is not even a country, yet many in the so-called Collective West are lead to believe (or want to believe) it is an independent country. But, before we delve into the historical and political details, let's try some analogies.
Obviously, such attempts to seek refuge would be futile. As human history has taught us time and again, the winner takes it all. Those seeking refuge on an island belonging to the country in question would eventually be captured or killed. Anyway, the obvious outcome for the 3 imagined conflicts above would be: the winners of the civil war, regardless of their political beliefs, would gain political and military control over 100% of the territory of that country. Unless someone came along and decided to interfere.
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Watch the next 3 short videos below to get an idea of what happened back then:
In this parody of treaty between a rogue state and its new vassal, it was decided that the "legal status of the island of Taiwan is temporarily undetermined, it would be resolved at a later time in accordance with the principles of peaceful settlement of disputes and self-determination!"
Yes, you read it right: imperial genocidal Japan, one of the losers of WWII and former occupier of a Chinese island, met with a third nation (the rogue USA) to conclude that the status of a Chinese island was "temporarily undetermined" due to "disputes and self-determination".
CLEAR EVIDENCE
Fast-forwarding to today's reality, let's try to understand why Taiwan is Chinese, beyond a shadow of a doubt!
1ST - Look at the official name of Taiwan, according to the very autonomous government of Taiwan. Its official name is "Republic of China". If you don't believe it, go to www.taiwan.gov.tw/.
The original name in traditional Chinese is 中華民國, which literally means Republic of the Chinese nation or Republic of China. Did you notice that the original name is not in Portuguese, Swahili, Uzbek or Taiwanese... but in Chinese? Did you notice that it is written in traditional Chinese characters? Traditional as in showing a link to Chinese tradition?
Moreover, "Republic of China" was exactly the name used by the Kuomintang (KMT) to refer to mainland China when the Kuomintang was in power in mainland China. When they lost the war to the Communist side (Communist Party of China, CPC), mainland China became the People's Republic of China and KMT-occupied Taiwan became the Republic of China. As simple as that!
2ND - Let's give a look at the flag of Taiwan (Republic of China) from 1949 to the present day, and compare it with the flag of mainland China from 1928 to 1949.
This was the official flag of mainland China between 1928 and 1949, under the KMT rule of Chiang Kai-shek:
And this has been the official flag of Taiwan since 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek and his fellow KMT members sought refuge in Taiwan after being defeated on the mainland:
In addition, this flag was first used as the naval flag of mainland China in 1912. Flag of the Chinese Navy.
3RD - The official anthem of Taiwan is called the National Anthem of the Republic of China (中華民國國歌 in traditional Chinese), and it is exactly the same as the anthem of mainland China between 1930 and 1949, when mainland China was ruled by the KMT.
The lyrics of the Taiwanese national anthem are taken from a 1924 speech by Sun Yat-sen, a Chinese politician and historical figure of Chinese republicanism for both the right-wingers (who fled to Taiwan after losing the civil war) and the communists in power in mainland China. Sun Yat-sen served as the first provisional president of China after the end of Imperial China.
4TH - The National Seal of Taiwan (Republic of China) is the same as the National Seal of mainland China used between 1929 and 1949 (the period when it was also called the Republic of China):
5TH - Ethnically, the Chinese island of Taiwan is more Chinese than China, if we use the erroneous senses most Westerners give to the words "China" and "Chinese". Unlike the French concept of "nation-state", "China" is a "civilizational nation" (on this subject, read What Is China?: Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History, by Ge Zhaoguang, by Ge Zhaoguang).
According to this Chinese concept (virtually unknown in the West), to be Chinese is, in a nutshell, to live in a Chinese way (the civilizational way), and has nothing to do with ethnicity.
Unaware of such a concept, aggressive, interventionist, and often arrogant Westerners dare to claim that Tibetans and Uighurs are not "Chinese" and thus call for the independence of resource-rich provinces of China inhabited by people who are indeed not ethnically "Chinese" (Han) in the Western sense of the word "Chinese.
Back to Taiwan, yes, Taiwan is more "Chinese" than China. Why is that? Let's compare the demographics of Taiwan and mainland China and see which has a higher percentage of Han Chinese (the "real" Chinese in an ethnicist nation-state logic). Taiwan:
Mainland China:
With 91.7% of the Han Chinese in mainland China compared to 95% of the Han Chinese in Taiwan, the latter is definitely more "Chinese" than the former!
6TH - According to ethnologue.com, in 2018, there were 907,000,000 people in China who used Chinese Mandarin as their first language (L1) and 178,000,000 who used it as their second language (L2). Given the Chinese population in 2018 (1,427,647,789 people), Chinese Mandarin was spoken by nearly 76% of Chinese citizens.
In Taiwan, there were a total of 19,580,000 speakers of Chinese Mandarin (L1+L2), or 83%. Again, Taiwan seems to be more "Chinese" than China.
As for Taiwanese, it has zero speakers for the very simple reason that there is no such language called Taiwanese.
7TH - Consider the script used in Taiwan. Unlike mainland China, whose government has modernized the writing system now called Simplified Chinese for practical reasons, Taiwan still uses traditional Chinese. The word traditional in front of Chinese says it all. The Chinese people in Taiwan are so attached to the long Chinese tradition that they don't even want to get rid of their traditional Chinese script.
Parallel to this issue is another interesting but nonsensical debate about the use of simplified Chinese in mainland China.
Driven by dishonest propaganda, many in the collective West and elsewhere are led to believe that the idea of simplifying Chinese characters was a decision made by the Communists after they came to power. On the contrary, it was an initiative of the previous government. After losing the civil war and taking refuge on the island of Taiwan, the authorities in Taipei, seeing that the new government in Beijing had decided to continue the reform of the writing system they had once initiated, decided to make a U-turn and abandon the idea of simplifying Chinese.
In the collective West, because any "reason" is a good reason to bash China, many are told to agree, and do agree, that simplifying the Chinese writing system is an "evil" act done by "ill-intentioned" CPC authorities trying to erase their own culture. Well, first of all, if this argument were true, it should be used against those who initiated it: Chiang Kai-shek's government, which fled to Taiwan. Second, it is not true! The "simplification" of the Chinese writing system is a very complex (but natural) evolutionary process with thousands of years of history, and has absolutely nothing to do with the eradication of our culture or language, nor with dystopian mind control of people, as some in the West like to believe. Please watch:
8TH - The people who formed the government of Taiwan were all Chinese, born in China, and citizens of China. In fact, they ruled all of China (or at least claimed to) until the day they lost the civil war! After arriving in Taiwan, they continued to think of themselves as the legal rulers of China. They never called themselves or thought of themselves as Taiwanese. In truth, they hoped to reverse their defeat and one day rule all of China again. That's how far they were from being Taiwanese. They were simply Chinese who had fled their headquarters in the Chinese city of Chongqing (the capital of the Nationalist government, in the heart of mainland China). None of them were Taiwanese.
9TH - The Kuomintang (KMT) and the people led by the Communist Party of China fought each other in a civil war that the KMT lost, but during the Japanese occupation and World War II, the 2 parties joined forces to fight the Japanese invaders, and the reason for this politically apparently strange cooperation was very simple: they were all Chinese!
KMT was a Chinese political organization that went as far as being the ruling power of the whole of China. What else did they need to be considered as Chinese living on a Chinese island after having being defeated?
10TH - China was one of the 50 founding nations of the UN in 1945, then ruled by the KMT. Four years later, at the end of the Chinese Civil War, the CPC came to power and the former KMT government (of China) fled to Taiwan. Of course, the UN would have to recognize the new government of China, as it always does when there is a successful coup or overthrow of the ruling regime in one of its member states. But it didn't.
The rogue U.S. state often goes far beyond that, recognizing its moronic puppet Juan Guaidó as president of Venezuela (even though he wasn't even a candidate), but that's another issue.
The point is that from 1949 on, China was ruled by a new communist government. However, due to the vile stubbornness of the US rogue state, the UN didn't recognize the new government for a long time. China would have to wait for the independence of many countries occupied by Western powers before its voice could be heard on the world stage.
From 1949 to 1971, China's seat at the UN was occupied by the government of Taiwan under the name of the Republic of China. What more needs to be said to prove that the Chinese island of Taiwan and its Chinese inhabitants are Chinese when we know that for 22 long years they were the very representatives of China at the UN?
Fortunately, historical justice was finally served in 1971 with the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758, which decided to give the Chinese UN seat to the legitimate and sole government of China, the one ruling from Beijing. The United States and Japan, of course, voted against it.
From 1971 on, the diplomatic relations between the rest of the world and China sharply moved from the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the People's Republic of China.
The evolution of countries that recognize the People's Republic of China (in red) versus the Republic of China (in blue):
The People's Republic of China and the Republic of China - how do they see each other:
The 13 UN members that still recognize the Republic of China (Taiwan):
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THE CONSTITUTION
Now let's check the Taiwanese constitution and look for more proof that Taiwan is Chinese, beyond a shadow of a doubt! I beg your pardon. What I meant was: let's check the Constitution of the Republic of China! You can read the complete version here or here.
11TH - Given the official name of their constitution, the 11th piece of evidence that Taiwan is Chinese had to be the very official name of it: Constitution of the Republic of China!
12TH - The constitution was ratified by the Kuomintang during a constituent National Assembly session held in Nanjing (mainland China) in 1946, and was adopted a year later in 1947, 2 years before the actual creation of that supposed country known as Taiwan.
This constitution, written by Chinese people living in China, was written with control of all of China by the nationalist KMT in mind, as we will see later. Nowhere in the document is the name Taiwan mentioned, only China.
When they were defeated, the KMT leaders fled to the Chinese island of Taiwan and didn't even bother to change their Chinese constitution (which was meant for all of China), or at least add the word "Taiwan" here and there to fool some fools. Why? Because they never perceived Taiwan as not being Chinese. There was no intention to fool anyone.
13TH - Checking the first paragraph of the Taiwanese constitution, one can read:
"The National Assembly of the Republic of China, by virtue of the mandate received from the whole body of citizens, in accordance with the teachings bequeathed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in founding the Republic of China (...)."
As anyone can confirm, the Taiwanese constitution clearly states that the name of their National Assembly is the National Assembly of the Republic of China in mainland China, not in Taiwan!
It clearly refers to an assembly whose (Chinese) members were first elected in 1947, in mainland China, and whose members first met in Nanjing in 1948.
14TH - Please reread the excerpt where it says: "in accordance with the teachings bequeathed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen at the founding of the Republic of China". See, the Taiwanese Constitution refers to the teachings of Mr. Sun Yat-Sen for the reason that he was a very important Chinese citizen in modern Chinese history (as one of the founders of the Republic)!
If Taiwan were a separate entity and not part of China, it should have been founded by the Taiwanese. Taiwanese should admire and spread the teachings of their Taiwanese heroes, not the teachings of heroes of the republic, which they perceive as the enemy, the other, the stranger.
But why not, please continue to follow his teachings! Mr. Sun Yat-Sen died long before the KMT (losers of the civil war) fled to Taiwan. He never preached independence for Taiwan! He preached just the opposite: the end of foreign occupation of China and the reunification of all of China (including, of course, the Chinese island of Taiwan)!
Yes, follow the words of Mr. Sun Yat-Sen and stop being the ignorant, naive instruments of your own destruction on behalf of the wicked imperial interests of the current most destructive force: the U.S. Terror State (as the North American author Michael Parenti often labeled it).
15TH - The original version of what some Taiwanese insist on calling the Taiwanese Constitution was originally written in Chinese, not in the nonexistent Taiwanese language:
16TH - If this document is the Constitution of Taiwan, why is there not a single mention of Taiwan in it? Dear readers, please do this very simple exercise: search for certain terms using Ctrl+S and then type in the terms. I have already done this with some terms, and here are the results, showing the number of times each term is mentioned:
- "China" - 17 times
- "Chinese citizen" - 7 times
- "Taiwan" - 0 times
- "Taiwanese citizen" - 0 times
- "Mongolia" - 5 times
- "Tibet" - 5 times
You can try other terms, but the conclusion would be the same. When China and Chinese citizens are mentioned throughout a document, you may also find references to some Chinese autonomous provinces such as Inner Mongolia or Tibet, but not to a Chinese autonomous region of Taiwan. Why?
17TH - First of all, those who wrote this constitution envisioned special status for Tibet or Mongolia, but not for Taiwan. You see, why give Chinese Taiwan a special status? Their own constitution never proposed it! Taiwan is simply a Chinese island, just like Hainan Island and others.
18TH - Second, this is a Chinese Constitution that makes no reference to Taiwan, because according to those who wrote it, Taiwan was obviously part of China, and such an obvious fact wasn't worth mentioning.
19TH - For all those intrepid Sinophobes who support not only the independence of Taiwan, but also the independence of autonomous provinces of China such as Tibet, Inner Mongolia, or Xinjiang, some questions may be raised.
How do you explain that the Constitution of Taiwan (Republic of China), in its article 64 ( and also in the articles 26, 91, 119, and 120), clearly and specifically claims jurisdiction over the territories of Tibet and Inner Mongolia?
How can you support the independence of these Chinese provinces and the independence of Taiwan if at the same time your beloved Taiwanese nation denies the independence you want for Tibet or Inner Mongolia and claims these provinces as part of its Republic of China (Taiwan)? What a conundrum, right?
Article 64
Members of the Legislative Yuan shall be elected in accordance with the following provisions:
1. Those to be elected from the provinces and by the municipalities under the direct jurisdiction of the Executive Yuan shall be five for each province or municipality with a population of not more than 3,000,000, one additional member shall be elected for each additional 1,000,000 in a province or municipality whose population is over 3,000,000;
2. Those to be elected from Mongolian Leagues and Banners;
3. Those to be elected from Tibet;
4. Those to be elected by various racial groups in frontier regions;
5. Those to be elected by Chinese citizens residing abroad; and
6. Those to be elected by occupational groups."
20TH - Did you notice the mention of the Executive Yuan in Taiwan's constitution? Strange, isn't it?
The Executive Yuan was established in 1928 in (mainland China) as the executive branch of the Chinese government. The Executive Yuan was disbanded in 1949 after the defeat of the KMT.
Yes, the name is still used in Taiwan. In Taiwan, they will tell you that the Executive Yuan was never disbanded. In fact, it just had to move its headquarters from a Chinese city on the mainland to another Chinese city on a Chinese island called Taiwan. And the government of Taiwan calls itself the Executive Yuan, no doubt about it.
But that's the point! Taiwan is not Taiwanese! Taiwan is part of China, as they prove when they claim to be the heirs of a former Chinese government!
Taiwan is ruled by eccentric brainwashed Chinese who believe that the Executive Yuan was never dissolved and therefore ignore their true Chinese government in Beijing. Taiwan is ruled by delusional Chinese losers who somehow believe they are living in the pre-1949 era, ruling all of China, including Tibet and Inner Mongolia, from their office (in No. 1, Zhongxiao E. Rd., Zhongzheng, Taipei, Taiwan, China), while claiming they are "not Chinese and Taiwan is not Chinese"!
A FEW MORE IMPORTANT REASONS
21ST - After the Chinese Civil War (1945-1949), several Chinese universities were effectively split due to the political division between Mainland China and Chinese Taiwan. This led to the establishment of "descendant" institutions in both regions. Here are some notable examples besides:
- Tsinghua University (清华大学) - The original Tsinghua University was founded in Beijing in 1911. After the Chinese Civil War, Tsinghua University remained in Beijing and became one of the most prestigious universities in mainland China. At the same time, some faculty members and alumni of Tsinghua University relocated to Taiwan. In 1956, the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU, 國立清華大學) was reestablished in Hsinchu, Taiwan, with support from the government and the original Tsinghua alumni.
- Peking University (Beijing University, 北京大学) - The original Peking University remained in Beijing and is one of the most prestigious universities in Mainland China. At the same time, the National Taiwan University (NTU, 國立臺灣大學) can be considered its counterpart in Taiwan, as it absorbed some faculty and resources from Peking University after the relocation.
- National Central University (中央大学) - The original National Central University (中央大学) was based in Nanjing. After the civil war, it was reestablished in Mainland China as Nanjing University (南京大学). Meanwhile, the National Central University (國立中央大學) was also reestablished in Taiwan in 1962, becoming a prominent institution there.
- Other examples of split institution include the Soochow University (東吳大學) first founded in Jiangsu Province in the year 1900, the Cheeloo University (齊魯大學) first founded in Shangdong in the year 1864, etc.
Even Wikipedia, with all its Sinophobic incoherence, can't deny such simple facts:
22ND - Taiwanese airlines - The state-owned airline is called China Airlines. Its sister airlines are China Airlines Cargo and Mandarin Airlines. It seems that many in Taiwan make no effort to hide how Chinese they are and how Chinese they feel.
23RD - Olympic disputes - China first participated in the Olympic Games in 1924, when the country was known as the Republic of China. At the end of the Chinese Civil War, which was won by the Communists, the former government of the Republic of China fled to Taiwan under the military protection of the interventionist United States. In 1951, the Chinese National Olympic Committee (under the defeated government of Chiang Kai-shek - Republic of China) moved from the mainland city of Nanking to the Chinese island of Taiwan. In the same year, the communist government ruling the new People's Republic of China (PRC) created a new Olympic Committee - The PRC Chinese National Olympic Committee.
In a normal world, the old committee, associated with the former rulers who ceased to rule China and fled to Taiwan, would have to be dismantled and, if not dismantled, at least not recognized by any international organization. But this Western-led world is not normal at all, and so the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided that both Chinese committees would be allowed to participate in the Olympic Games, starting with the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
In 1954, the IOC adopted a final resolution officially recognizing the Olympic Committee representing the People's Republic of China (PRC), but decided to continue to recognize the former Olympic Committee of the Republic of China (now in Taiwan). In protest of this "two China" issue, the actual Chinese Committee (PRC) withdrew from the organization and gave up its right to participate in the Olympic Games.
The problem was only somewhat resolved in 1979, when the IOC officially recognized the PRC Olympic Committee as the sole representative body for China, while demanding that the anachronistic Taipei-based Olympic Committee be renamed the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee. With these changes, Chinese living in Taiwan can participate in the Olympic Games under the logic of 1 Country 2 Systems, as is the case with athletes from Chinese Hong Kong or many other athletes from Western colonies such as Bermuda or Puerto Rico.
24TH - Why on earth do Taiwanese streets have names of Chinese cities (like Chongqing Road), names of Chinese citizens, and other references to the nation (China) that Taiwanese hate so much?
25TH - Why the memorial halls of 2 former presidents of China (Chiang Kai-Shek and Sun Yat-Sen) in the capital of so-called Taiwan?
The first one is understandable, it was created to honor that Chinese murderous traitor. But for the second, there is no logical explanation! Why a memorial hall for a former Chinese president who was born in China and died in China long before the US Terror State's decision to surround an island with its 7th fleet and brainwash its inhabitants to hate the rest of the country?
26TH - Many Taiwanese politicians, including former President Tsai Ing-wen, identify themselves as servants of the Republic of China:
The same goes for Lai Ching-te, the current president of Taiwan:
27TH - The army of Taiwan is called "Republic of China Army". Its emblem also includes the blue-white part of the official flag of mainland China between 1928 and 1949.
28TH - Taiwan's official position on the starus of Taiwan
During a meeting between Chinese and Taiwanese representatives in Hong Kong on October 30, 1992, both parties agreed to recognize the "one China" principle.
Today, many think-tankers and political experts in the Collective West and in Taiwan claim that the agreement was "not valid," "no longer valid," or even "never existed:
- The ‘1992 Consensus’ Never Existed
- The 1992 Consensus is a political term referring to the alleged outcome of a meeting in 1992
- The Non‐consensus 1992 Consensus
Despite all this revisionism, historical facts are still historical facts. In any case, one only needs to visit official websites in order to fact check that the official institutions in Taiwan call Taiwan "The Republic of China":
In any case, one only needs to visit official websites to verify that all the official institutions in Taiwan refer to themselves as "The Republic of China":
A FEW LESS IMPORTANT REASONS
29TH - In 2019, anti-China protesters in Hong Kong drew a map showing mainland China, Macau, Hong Kong, the Spratly and Paracel Islands (South China Sea), and Taiwan all united under the flag of the Republic of China (Taiwanese government).
These are the same people who call for the independence of Chinese territories like Hong Kong or Taiwan. These are the same people that many in the Collective West blindly insist on supporting and empathizing with.
Finally, two interesting Taiwanese polemics that prove something is wrong when you decide to invent absurdities like an independent Taiwan.
30TH - Sun Yat-sen as the father of Taiwan:
Of course, a Chinese man who died in mainland China long before the proclamation of the Taiwan nation could never be a father of Taiwan. Yet the memorial hall in his honor in Taipei is there for that purpose. To correct this nonsense, some have started a polemic that is only possible among Taiwanese. Read it on Wikipedia:
In November 2004, the ROC Ministry of Education proposed that Sun Yat-sen was not the father of Taiwan. Instead, Sun was a foreigner from mainland China. Taiwanese Education minister Tu Cheng-sheng and Examination Yuan member Lin Yu-ti, both of whom supported the proposal, had their portraits pelted with eggs in protest.At a Sun Yat-sen statue in Kaohsiung, a 70-year-old ROC retired soldier committed suicide as a way to protest the ministry proposal on the anniversary of Sun's birthday 12 November."
31ST - Nanjing as the capital of Taiwan:
Of course, a city in mainland China can't possibly be the capital of a rebellious Chinese island called Taiwan. Nevertheless, many Chinese in Taiwan see it that way because they are Chinese who still don't understand that they lost the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
Yes, Nanjing was their capital, but then the KMT lost the war and fled to Taiwan. But why do some Taiwanese claim Nanjing as their capital? Understandably, if you are a Taiwanese Chinese living in the past, your capital is Nanjing. That's absolutely fair. But this position on reforces the argument that Taiwan is Chinese!
On this polemic, please read this rather hilarious article Schools to teach Nanjing is ROC capital: ministry, published by the Taipei Times.
For more arguments on why the Island of Taiwan is Chinese territory, please check these articles:
- Taiwan is Chinese for Dummies - Part 5 - History Lesson
- Taiwan is Chinese for Dummies - Part 6 - Getting closer to reunification
- Taiwan is Chinese for Babbies
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Luís Garcia
