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That article says that Taiwan didn't have democratic elections in 1990. How is that responsive to a claim that Nationalist China was undemocratic?

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I'm under the impression that Taiwan is Nationalist China.

I think you missed the implied "as of 1949" in the claim you attempted to rebut.

It's not. Taiwan is fully democratic, has elected a president from the Democratic Progressive Party and has very few people who self-identify as Chinese.

Everything I wrote above is true. Here is more detail:

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...

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