Taiwan's increasing economic dependency on mainland China and the benefits reunification could bring to boost Taiwan's economy. In addition to economic reasons, the social and cultural divide between Taiwan and China isn't that deep. Their split only happened in 1949, which is like only a generation ago. Even Hong Kong came under China's sovereignty after over 150 years of British rule, so why can't Taiwan consider reunification?
They went to Taiwan and still are there today.
The Strait of Formosa separates Taiwan (aka, Formosa) from the mainland Chinese Provence of Fukien. The Strait is an arm of the Pacific Ocean that runs from the South China Sea to the East China Sea.
The Nationalist Chinese Party from Mainland China evacuated to the island of Taiwan in 1949. Taiwan is not a separate nation.
The nationalists fled to Taiwan after the communists took over Mainland China.
Taiwan is on an island, Taipei. It has no mainland region.
Taiwan is an island which has a different government than the Chinese mainland because the losing non-communist forces during the Chinese civil war fled to Taiwan leaving the communists to take over the mainland. The official title of Taiwan is the 'Republic of China'
Dicknuggets
There are obviously a few in Mainland China, and a lot more in other Chinese areas like Taiwan and Singapore. Most animosity against Japanese by Chinese comes from Mainland China.
The Communist Chinese own and occupy Taiwan. ___ No that is incorrect. The Communist Chinese DO NOT occupy Taiwan. Taiwan is called the Republic of China, a separate country from the People's Republic of China. At the end of the Chinese Revolution, Chaing Kai-Shek and the Kuomintang fled China and set up government in Taiwan. The existence of the Republic of China has been a contentious issue between Taiwan and mainland China.
Chiang Kai-shek
When the People's Republic of China was established on the Chinese mainland in 1949, Chinese nationalists fled to the island of Taiwan. Since that occurrence, there has been a dispute over whether Taiwan is part of China or a separate, sovereign country.