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The Status Of Taiwan Under International Law And In A Changing World, Eric Ting-Lun Huang
The Status Of Taiwan Under International Law And In A Changing World, Eric Ting-Lun Huang
Theses and Dissertations
The issue of Taiwan's status has long been disputed. Since 1949, more than half a century ago, a civil war divided a Chinese nation into two governments within the Chinese territories. One is the People's Republic of China on the mainland(China), the other is the Republic of China on Taiwan(Taiwan). Since then, China has long embraced the position of annexing Taiwan as its essential goal based on the political fiction of the one-China principle, assuming that "there is only one China internationally, Taiwan is a part of China, and the People's Republic of China is thesole government to represent the …