Chp13 Taiwan

China and Taiwan issue is a sensitive topic. The People's Republic of China asserts that there is only "One China" and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. According to a historical perspective, Taiwanese indeed fled to the island from the mainland of China. China and Taiwan, while in practice maintaining a fragile "status quo" relationship, periodically grow impatient with the diplomatic patchwork that has kept the island separate from the Communist mainland since 1949.  After losing the civil war to Communist Chinese and fleeing to Taiwan in 1949, the nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) leaders of the Republic of China regarded the Communist Chinese government as illegitimate, claiming the mainland as rightfully their own. Beijing, in turn, regards Taiwan as a renegade province, and has tried repeatedly to persuade the island to negotiate a return to the fold. Look at it this way they originally belonged to China. Since they proposed to be another country and independent by themselves, China cannot allow and acceptable that. They are Chinese why they need to established another country, even though they lose civil war. This issue makes me more confuse. China is step back for China and Taiwan solidarity and peace, so put forward the policy of "one country, two systems", but the Taiwan government still cannot take a step back to accept any conditions. Lead to the relationship between China and Taiwan are tension. In the other way that I think Taiwan has courage to still decide independent because the U.S supports their military weapon. Taiwan's strategic security rests heavily on the implied guarantees offered by the United States over the years--guarantees made more concrete than ever during the administration of George W. Bush, who pledged in 2002 to "do what it takes to help Taiwan defend herself, and the Chinese must understand that." China has consistently protested U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. Anyway, Taiwan is a very beautiful island. It is a worthwhile tourist place.