The Goumingtong originally ruled China through the Nationalists, who invited the Communists in China to be a apart of the government; however, the Nationalists abused their power and tried to eradicate the Communists, who came back and expelled the Nationalists to Taiwan. In Taiwan, the Nationalists set up a temporary government with the aid of the United States under Martial Law. According to the Constitution, the President of the Republic of China can only be elected by the National Assembly, not by the population of Taiwan, so when martial law was lifted in the 1980's, and a President was elected by the people of Taiwan, the Republic of China became illegitimate. The Nationalists who set up the Republic of China in Taiwan was in a civil war with the Communists at the time and is still in the spat, however, the local Taiwanese want to overturn the Constitution, since the old guard of the Republic has died out or retired, who, like their counterparts in China want unification. The ethnic Chinese of Taiwan want unification and are aware of the history that goes along with the Communist/Nationalist civil war. Taiwan's current government under an illegitimate President wants to in effect say Taiwan is an independent nation, with the name Republic of China, that has jurisdiction over all of China which are renegade provinces that need to be subdued if you follow what is in ROC's Constitution, which Communist China will abviously reject. To really understand this issue you must know the history of the case.
What will really happen after Taiwan unfiies with the mainland? The Taiwanese that are in power now, would lose their power, the Nationalists would lose their power, and the Communists would put their own people in charge. The way of life Taiwan has sustained since the Nationalists came to Taiwan will come to an end or at least be altered. China does not threaten to blow up the whole of Taiwan; it has not threatened to engage in nuclear war as North Korea is doing; China part of the United Nations, which sanctions such actions. The argument that China only wants the land instead of the people in Taiwan is erroneous; there are many Chinese ethnic people in addition to the indigenous Taiwanese on the island; the issue is reunification, not genoicide.
The leaders of China know have established a new foreign policy in regard to Japan; they really want a friendly atmosphere with the Japanese because Japan invests heavily in China and it would become counterproductive in establishing a stable growing economy, however, many Chinese resent the Japanese for the war atrocities suffered by them; if someone raped and killed your family, you would hate them, too; but if your brother killed another one of your brothers, you probably wouldn't hate them as much.
China has never elected its leaders; Chinese civilization depends on the Mandate of Heaven; a ruling government is established by the Mandate of Heaven, not by popular vote as it it was in Greece and Rome (in the form of a Republic) which later influenced the Enlightenment (which did not occur in China) and the French Revolution (which also did not occur in China). And through Imperialism, Europe colonized the world and imposed Greek and Roman forms of government on the world.
I think every government is subversive in revealing the truth. I don't believe any paper in the world tells the whole truth; they all probably have their own interests at heart and national interests at heart.
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