Taiwan+and+China++Unification+and+Nationalism

 **The Communist Chinese government wants the unification with the Nationalist Taiwanese government who wants their independent country. When is this conflict going to be end? **
 * Taiwan & China: Unification and Nationalism **

The conflict began in 1949 when Jiang Jieshi and other nationalists leaders retreated to Taiwan, and the conflict is still going on without the actual fighting, which means that Taiwa n’s relationship with China is tenuous. That means Taiwan and China help each other sometimes but they don’t like each other and they don’t want to abandon their thoughts. The Communist Chinese government and the Nationalist Taiwanese government (also called as Republic of China) are the major groups of the conflict. The main problem between Taiwan and China was the Communist and the Nationalist. A civil war was going on in China between the Nationalists and the Communists when the Japanese invaded China in 1937. During WWII, under Mao Zedong, the Communists had a stronghold in northwestern China. Meanwhile, the nationalist forces under Jiang Jieshi dominated southwestern China. Both of them fought on the side of Allies in the WWII. However, after Japan surrendered, the Nationalist and Communists resumed fighting. In October 1949, Mao Zedong gained the control of China. He proclaimed it the People’s Republic of China. Then, Jiang and other nationalist leaders retreated to Taiwan and they built the Nationalist government with the help of the United States, which was also called the Republic of China. Later, China wanted Taiwan to be unified with them. However, w ith a tradition of capitalism and orientation  to the West**, ** Taiwan d id  not want to be subjected to  China <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">. Also, Taiwan was a colony of Japan for 50 years after China was defeated by Japan on Sino-Japanese war, many civilians in Taiwan had Japanese culture and they didn’t have much information about China. However, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> China claim <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">ed <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> the right to the province, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">which causes <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">the conflict between China and Taiwan. Taiwan wanted independence and China wanted the unification with Taiwan. Today, Taiwan and China are still not in a good relationship and china is still trying to make Taiwan to be a part of China. However, Taiwan still wants to keep their independent country. Therefore, the relationship between China and Taiwan is not good. Today, China helps Taiwan but also China is blocking the Taiwan’s diplomacy with other countries because China knows that the diplomacy would help Taiwan to become an independent country. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">The conflict took place between China and <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Taiwan. They did not have actual war with the armaments. However, the threats of Chinese military actions against Taiwan caused Taiwan to prepare for the war with tanks, strong navies, strong militaries, etc. (as the picture beside). The conflict first took place when Mao started to stress the importance of eventual unification with Taiwan under a principle of "one China.” However, they did not use any armaments.  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">This conflict occurred because the Taiwan’s ideas and the China’s ideas were very different. Nationalist Taiwan wanted to be an independent country but Communist China wanted Taiwan to be unified with China. Most Chinese and many people in the world believe that Taiwan is a part of China. However, actually, Taiwan is not a part of china but also Taiwan is not a complete independent country because they are affected by China a lot. China would not let Taiwan go because Taiwan has a developed economy so mostly, they live well. If Taiwan becomes a part of China, China would get more powers with the Taiwan’s wealth, land, and other developed things that Taiwan has. China would get a lot of benefits if they unify with Taiwan. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Soviet Union supported China during that time because Soviet Union also had the Communist government. The United States supported Taiwan because the U.S. had a democratic government, and the U.S. thought the citizens’ freedoms were very important as the Nationalist Taiwanese government thought. This supports were the part of the Cold War because the U.S. supported Nationalist Taiwan and the Soviet Union supported the Communist China. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">If China and Taiwan do not consult their opinions, and keep the competition, the war might happen to them. In order to prevent the war between them, they need to have a conference and make good suggestions to both countries. However, today, China is blocking the Taiwan’s diplomacy so Taiwan cannot have a relationship with the countries that China does diplomacy with. However, they also help each other for their benefits even though the conflict between them is not clearly solved. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 8pt;">In the cartoon, the big scary bird which represents <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">C <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 8pt;">hina tries to take or shoot a very small and a lonely bird which represents Taiwan. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">When did the conflict take place? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Who are the major groups involved in the conflict? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">What are the problems at the center of the conflict? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Where did the conflict take ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">place? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">Why is the conflict a conflict? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">Why will China not let Taiwan go? **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">What countries supported China or Taiwan? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 바탕;">What are the next steps? **