> subsidiary of Chinese manufacturer Foxconn
Foxconn is Taiwanese
Foxconn is Taiwanese
And meanwhile, the country has been in a sort of cold war with the PRC since the late 1940s, and was a Japanese colony for the 50 years prior to that. The last government to have military control over all of Mainland China and Taiwan (plus Mongolia) was the Qing Dynasty.
Saying that "Taiwan is Chinese" is basically true in an imprecise way, but once you drill down into the details a little, it gets complicated.
ROC held the China UN seat until 1971, and the first multi-party elections were held in 1986. KMT still considers ROC to include all Chinese territory.
> Taiwan has many citizens who speak Mandarin or various dialects of Chinese; many of them consider themselves Chinese, but also many do not. There are Taiwanese whose ancestors moved there from China as early as the 1600s. Besides, they also have a sizeable population of aboriginal people with totally non-Chinese cultural practices and who speak a language that isn't even loosely related to Chinese.
You're confusing nationality with ethnicity. PRC has many non-Han minorities too, but their nationality is Chinese.
> And meanwhile, the country has been in a sort of cold war with the PRC since the late 1940s, and was a Japanese colony for the 50 years prior to that. The last government to have military control over all of Mainland China and Taiwan (plus Mongolia) was the Qing Dynasty.
PRC and ROC claim all of the territory as "China", whether they historically controlled it or not.
I'm not confusing anything, I know the difference between nationality and ethnicity (and language). The non-Han people in the PRC are of Chinese nationality because they are residents of territory that is under the PRC's political and military control. That statement is not true for the people of Taiwan. They have their own government, and many people including elected officials in that government want to remove the word China from the country's official name.
So are Taiwanese people of Chinese nationality? No. Chinese ethnicity? A slight majority. Chinese speaking? A larger majority. So again it depends what you mean by "Chinese."
The rest of the facts you're stating are true on paper only--they are political fictions perpetuated by the cold war.
PRC has naturally a much stronger claim to that since it controls a vast majority of China. But in 1970's, PRC was deep in radical socialist experiments and the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, and the economy was weak, while ROC had opened up to world trade (I remember all those Taiwanese Apple and PC clones of early 1980's). It looked like ROC will actually be the more significant economy, even if it has much smaller population.
Then PRC changed its course.
Foxconn is wherever they decide to move their head office