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A lot of "pro-Taiwan" whitoids purport to speak for the Chinese people of Taiwan but don't ever listen to actual Taiwanese voices because you like the sound of your own voice more than you care for the Taiwanese people themselves. This is and has always been the official position of the Republic of China and has never changed despite separatist protestations. Taiwan is indeed a part of China under ROC administration. Taiwan and the ROC are not identical to each other. Taiwan is only a part of the ROC which includes all of mainland China. There is not two China but only one China with two different interpretations (PRC vs ROC). The Chinese Civil War is an unresolved conflict whose outcome is to be decided solely by the brotherly peoples on both sides of the Strait without outside interference or input: "The constitutional capital of the Republic of China is Nanking, in central China. During one period of the Sino-Japanese War, the central government of the ROC moved its capital from Nanking to Chungking, in Szechwan Province. But when the war with Japan ended in 1945, it moved back to Nanking. After the Chinese Communists' usurpation of the China mainland in 1949, the central government of the ROC moved from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan, where it continues to operate today. Taiwan is a large island 100 miles southeast of the Fukien coast of the Chinese mainland. There are three separate political areas located on Taiwan: Taiwan Province, Taipei Municipality and Kaohsiung Municipality*. The Taipei and Kaohsiung municipalities are special districts (similar to Washinglon D.C.) under the direct administration of the central government. The provincial seat of Taiwan Province, formerly in Taipei, was moved to Nantou county, central Taiwan, in 1957. The central government of the Republic of China governs not only Taiwan Province, Taipei Municipality and Kaohsiung Municipality, but also island groups belonging to Fukien Province (Quemoy and Matsu) and the Spratly and Pratas Island chains in the South China Sea. Contrary to common (though incorrect) usage, there is no country bearing the name "Taiwan," which refers only to the island, a province of the ROC, and has no other geographical or political identity. The people on Taiwan and other territories under the control of the ROC are all Chinese. Residents of Taiwan migrated from the various provinces of the Chinese mainland over the course of some three hundred years, beginning in the mid-17th century. Migrants to Taiwan who were born in Fukien Province on the mainland still call themselves "Fukienese," migrants from Canton are still known as "Cantonese" and so on throughout all the provinces of China. According to Chinese family tradition, children have the same provincial or ethnic derivation as their parents, regardless of where the children are born. For example, a child born to Fukienese parents living in Taipei is not "Taiwanese;" he or she is still "Fukienese." A child born to Hunanese parents who reside in southern Taiwan is also Hunanese, and so on. The natives of Quemoy and Matsu are Fukienese in origin, because the islands are part of Fukien Province. Only those persons born to families that have been in Taiwan for generations are known as Taiwanese. Consequently, it is inaccurate to speak of the people of Free China as being "Taiwanese" only. Free China is a melting pot of many different ethnic and provincial Chinese groups, all of which naturally have their ancestral roots in mainland China. Therefore, in a broader cultural, national and ethnic sense, the people of the ROC are all Chinese - just as Texans and New Yorkers fall under the broader term "Americans." - 'ROC' and 'Chinese,' if you please...

“We don't want a war. We want peace and stability,” says Taiwan’s representative to the U.S., Ambassador Alexander Yui, regarding relations with China. “We are sovereign, independent away from the Chinese People's Republic of China's attempt to swallow us as one of their own. They have never ruled or controlled Taiwan, ever,” he adds. “Those are intruders trying to get into our house. We're trying to beef up our security system. And then they complain, the intruder complains that because we're trying to improve our security system it’s making his job harder.”

The future of Taiwan belongs to the Taiwanese people, and nobody else. The self-determination of peoples is a fundamental right. Taiwan’s democracy, identity, and destiny must be decided by the 23 million Taiwanese alone, free from coercion, threats, or imperial ambitions.

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