Do you really understand this period of Chinese history? In 1895, the Qing Dynasty was forced to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki and cede Taiwan Province to Japan. In 1912, the Republic of China replaced the Qing Dynasty (the regime fell, and ROC inherited everything from the Qing Dynasty, including Taiwan Province, which the Qing government was forced to cede to Japan). After Japan's defeat in World War II, the territories plundered and colonized by Japan before were returned to all countries. In 1945, the Republic of China took back Taiwan Province, which was forced to cede to Japan in 1895. This is also the origin of why Taiwan is now called the "Republic of China". At this time, Taiwan is only a province under ROC. Afterwards, there was a civil war between the two political parties in China (the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party). The Communist Party took control of the mainland, and the Kuomintang was defeated and fled to Taiwan Province. By 1949, with the support of most Chinese people, the PRC was established in the mainland and replaced the ROC (the regime fell, and the PRC inherited all of the ROC, including Taiwan Province. Just like the ROC inherited the Qing Dynasty). But there is no denying the fact that the former government that fled to Taiwan Province was in power on the island under the banner of ROC. At this time, China formed two governments: the former government and the new government. Those who support independence in Taiwan will confuse the situation by describing it as two countries, often confusing sovereignty and governance rights. So far, the territorial scope of the two constitutions are intertwined. In 1971, United Nations Resolution 2758 restored the People's Republic of China's seat in the United Nations representing China. So far, the PRC government has received international recognition and has become the only legitimate government of China. After that, Chiang Kai-shek and the subsequent illegal former governments continued to be in power in Taiwan Province under the banner of ROC to this day. To be precise, they are still in a state of civil war. Some time after that, they also threatened to counterattack the mainland. At that time, their economy was much better than that of the mainland and they had strength. But now mainland China is the second most powerful country in the world, and the strength gap between the two sides is huge. They knew there was no hope of counterattack. The political interests of those in power would be shaken if they were unified. It's like asking Elon Musk to give up being the CEO of Tesla and become a car mechanic. Who would be willing to do that? ? Therefore, politicians all advocate Taiwan independence. They revise and delete Chinese history in their education system. And educate Taiwanese youth so that their subconscious minds think that Taiwan is a country. Is this considered brainwashing? ? ?

I like the videos on this channel, but you all should probably work on pronunciations a bit (in this and other videos). For example, Qing Dynasty is pronounced "ching", not "kwing". Regardless, thanks for the informative videos you release.

This was really good so many people oversimplify the situation as being "well if Russia would have taken Ukraine then China would have immediately gone after Taiwan", completely forgetting that the Taiwan situation is vastly more complicated.

Hopefully everything will be resolved

Saying China invading Taiwan is like saying ur dad is invading ur room……

Taiwan's history began about 400 years ago when Dutch people landed Taiwan and set up the first government in Taiwan. Today about 90 % of the families of the citizens in Taiwan settled down before ww2 when Japanese ruled the island. After world war 2, the representatives from 48 countries gathered in San Francisco and signed the Treaty of Peace with Japan. According to the international treaty, Japan only gave up the sovereignty over Taiwan but Japan never gave Taiwan to any country including China. Any other county pretending to claim over Taiwan is obviously illegal and should be condemned. When we talk about the history, we should not ignore the fact that about 90% of the families in Taiwan had settled down in Taiwan before ww2 and only focus on 10 % of the families in Taiwan who followed Chiang- kai- shek fleeing China to Taiwan!

*Summary* Will China invade Taiwan? : *maybe*

If China does invade Taiwan I will definitely be volunteering to defending Taiwan

*This is nothing new that the U.S. would defend Taiwan* if they can't provide for sufficient self-defense from a PRC attack. The Taiwan Relations Act (Public Law 96-8, 22 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.) has been U.S. policy since 1979 and states (Sec. 3 point 1), the U.S. will provide "defense articles and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability." Defense services could include anything from supplying manuals to supplying United States military forces(hence the ambiguity). That the U.S. wouldn't supply military forces if Taiwan's defenses were not sufficient to provide said self-defense capability would be a violation of the TRA.

To these questions: 1. China will NOT invade Taiwan. 2. The US will defend Taiwan in any case an invasion happens.

What I fear the most is that when another world war will start in Asia... can we do it space though? like lightyears away from the Earth...so we won't go extinct

How Taiwan provokes China 1. deal with diseases from China 2. deal with its own historical atrocities (white terror) 3. deal with its people within a democracy How China provokes Taiwan 1. start the First Taiwan Strait Crisis 2. start the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 3. start the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis

The Taiwan controversy is complicated. Everything will not have a result until Taiwan's general election in 2024

there is no “1992 consensus” the person who created the term admitted to making it up

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What about the taiwan resrves of fish and gas? I thought this were the main reasons economicly speaking

5:39 A note here, technically speaking, the 14 countries do not recognize "Taiwan" as a sovereign country, they recognize the "Republic of China" as THE one China.

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The main reason of Cpc want Tai wan is TSMC. Because China did not hv any technology to create a small semiconductor chip like taiwan did. Also, the main reason of Taiwan reject the one country two political systems is due to Tai wan see how bad china treat hong kong.

And one more thing: Taiwan is not that weak!

Why can't it be peaceful like the other SAR former Portuguese colony of Macao... 🇵🇹🇪🇺

Taiwan is an independent state

But yet we don’t help Ukraine

America have no chance Russia 🤝china

Already fall season. .. when the invasion will start..

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There're a whole lot things in the video that's missing or needed clarification and correction. But to be fair the Taiwan - China problem is a notoriously complicated topic to tackle.

Some other country's unfinished civil war and what will the xxx do? It's a shame the europeans didn't do enough in the 1860s.

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You're bias Nonsense

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American will probably be lose.

Imagine getting drafted for Taiwan lol

china is all talk no action

There is the Taiwan relations act, which by U.S. law makes the US responsible for adequately supporting the defense of Taiwan with any military weaponry that Taiwan requires, while the U.S. has been ambiguous on whether or not it will defend Taiwan. I for one, as an American, believe that we should defend Taiwan. Also most of the second island chain is under the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the USA

- Biden 2001: "China is not our enemy" - Biden 2011: "I believe then and I'm even more convinced now that a rising China is incredibly positive development for, not only China, but United States and the rest of the world." - Biden 2011: "It is in our self-interest that China to continue to prosper" - Biden 2013: "China is a great nation, and we should hope for their continued expansion." - Biden 2015: "We want to see China rise. A rising China can be a significant asset for the region and the world." - Biden 2019: "China is going to eat our lunch? Come on man. They're not bad folks, folks. And guess what? They're not a competition for us." - Biden 2019: "China is not our problem." - Biden 2019: "The idea that China is gonna eat our lunch, is bizarre...And so, what are we..what are we..what are we worried about?" - Biden 2020: "We talked about China is our competitor? We should be helping." *Also Biden 2021: "If we don't get moving they're (China) gonna eat our lunch. They have major..major new initiatives on rail and they already have rail that goes 225 miles an hour with East. They're working very hard."* *Also Biden 2021: "The Chinese are eating our lunch. They're eating our lunch economically. They're investing hundreds of billions of dollars in research. If it keeps going the way, they're going to own the electric car market in the world. We've got to compete... we've got to compete."* *Also Biden 2022: "We would defend Taiwan military if China invade."*

taiwan is quiet powerful

Taiwan was in the middle of Japanese Empire and was part of Mainland Japan. ROC/China(both CCP and KMT) did not claim Taiwan until after WWII began. They started to know how important Taiwan was in the modern era. USA needs Taiwan to side with it with the very same reason. It's just that USA did not want to unify with Taiwan. USA actually had the chance, but let KMT to do the job for them, but KMT seized the island for themselves.

So People's republic of China fight with Reupblic of China, China fight with China 🤣