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I did a little reading a few months ago and Taiwan has not been considered part of China proper, ever. It was ruled as s colony for a few centuries to stamp out pirates but that was about it. China had pulled out before Europeans moved into Asia. I think it may have been under European rule longer then Chinese rule.
Bill D
 
Taiwanese machinery has always been in the market here,in fact they established the Asian lathe in the late 60s,and wiped out all the Australian makers in short order.....Of late ,Taiwanese machine tools are established as a higher quality,higher cost item when compared to an equivalent Chinese item.
 
I did a little reading a few months ago and Taiwan has not been considered part of China proper, ever. It was ruled as s colony for a few centuries to stamp out pirates but that was about it. China had pulled out before Europeans moved into Asia. I think it may have been under European rule longer then Chinese rule.
Bill D

Read more. Convoluted history. Japan also had a hand in there. Korea even more so.
"Rule" tends to be economic and remote, much of Asia.

One source has pointed out that the "aboriginal" Taiwanese- nearly extinct, they are so submerged in massive influx of "mainland" refugee/immigrants, long-since, not just 1949 onward, either - is genetic cousin to the peoples of Northern Luzon, present-day Philippines.

Taiwan has a free-market economy, though. Believe it!

Largely off the back of being so insanely CORRUPT they can NOT agree for even five minutes in a row on doing anything "socialistic"!

Functions sort of like Mafia vs Camorra, vs Union Corse, vs Medellin Cartel, vs.. anybody who has a fancier motor-scooter than you have?

A US mission's remark from several years back:

"We came expecting to find another Switzerland. We found another Panama!"
 
Taiwanese machinery has always been in the market here,in fact they established the Asian lathe in the late 60s,and wiped out all the Australian makers in short order.....Of late ,Taiwanese machine tools are established as a higher quality,higher cost item when compared to an equivalent Chinese item.

Problem is... they then outsourced all the goods they COULD .. to factories THEY helped set up.. in mainland China.

Sound waaay too much like "Americans" for comfort?
 
It was the Nationalists who made Taiwan part of China...and even had a sham parliament of China,with members representing Chinese electorates on the mainland . This worked smoothly while Mao was in charge of stuffing things up,and the US was vastly more powerful than China,but gradually the Taiwanese govt began to see this may be a bad idea,as it could work both ways....Too late ,China says, thats what you want ,thats what you got.
 
It was the Nationalists who made Taiwan part of China...and even had a sham parliament of China,with members representing Chinese electorates on the mainland . This worked smoothly while Mao was in charge of stuffing things up,and the US was vastly more powerful than China,but gradually the Taiwanese govt began to see this may be a bad idea,as it could work both ways....Too late ,China says, thats what you want ,thats what you got.

It "sort of" does work both ways.

Each province of China has a different sort-of "hospitality" suite at "Headquarters" in Beijing. All are very differently decorated - to reflect the ancient cultural differences.

Taiwan's suite is magnificent.. but it isn't occupied.

Yet.

It gets a LOT of traffic as the PRC gov tourist agencies runs groups of thought to be potentially influential "Hua Chau" (mostly wealthy overseas returnees to HKG, predominently Canadian, our case) Tourists through it.

Explaining how they are patiently waiting for their truant Province to come home to Mother-mainland!
 
Some of you may recall, if you're old enough, that Taiwan (Formosa) was always run by the nationalists, Chang Kai- shek, It separated from mainland China when Mao defeated the nationalists after WW2. The US always treated Taiwan as a separate nation until Nixon and Kissinger decided that allowing China to join economically the rest of the world would entice China to behave. Well, as we know that guess failed miserably and China has been raping the world ever since. Part of that Kissinger deal was to NOT treat Taiwan as a separate country officially. However there has always been a mutual defense pact with Taiwan and a very good trade arrangement. It was only the official upfront one China policy, but in truth, our trade deal with Taiwan has always been good. So, no, do not expect prices to be lower. What is changing now is the increased sales of defensive weapons to Taiwan and increase in importance of our military alignment with Taiwan in our defense of International waters in the south China sea.
 








 
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