Huawei Under Fire for Calling Taiwan a Country

The communists proclaimed a new republic, the People's Republic of China, over the whole of China and thereby decreed that the Republic of China has ceased to exist.

Following this logic Taiwan is simply under the control of "rebels".

That would have been 'fine' if the new regime had quickly 'finished off' the job but they didn't. With time this has become a tedious mental gymnastics, and also probably counter-productive for them...