The internet started in 1969 and the Chinese Communist Party forced the legitimate government to retreat to Taipei in 1949.
So China has been fact checking for twenty years longer than the internet has existed.
So China has been fact checking for twenty years longer than the internet has existed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Taiwan https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2016/taiwan
Today Taiwan has a ridiculous number of political parties (nearly 300) with 3-4 of them actually having seats in the house, tho effectively Taiwan is a 2 party country with sweeping swings in number of seats and leadership between the Democratic Progressive Party and the Chinese National Party.
Ruling party: Taiwan's president is indeed from the Democratic Progressive Party. [1]
Self identification: More than 80 percent of respondents self-identified as Taiwanese, compared with 8.1 percent who identified themselves as Chinese and 7.6 percent who identified as both. [2]
Fully democratic: Not only does Taiwan have open elections and tolerate political demonstrations even the US wouldn't, but people have had referendum powers since 2003. This power was used stop the building of casinos in Penghu despite the moneyed interests pushing for them: [3]
1) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35336411
2) http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2016/05/28/20...
3) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-15/casinos-r...
Thats the only difference.
china presents an image that is almost North Korean to the rest of the world, even though this is far from the truth. The current leadership, which came of age during the cultural revolution, is even worse than the previous leaders in this regard, and they probably don't realize how bad they look (with the fake hair dye, but everything else also).