Comment by bfung | Hacker News Reader

Comment by bfung | Hacker News Reader

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If you ask people in Taiwan, they will say they’re independent. If you ask China, they’ll say Taiwan belongs to China.

The short history version is basically like this: after the overthrowing of the last emperor and WW2, the Chinese civil war continued between the KMT political party and the Communist party. KMT basically lost and moved to which is Taiwan today and even the KMT now is no longer the controlling majority now (they have elections whereas mainland China does not).

To the person who got flagged to death, apologies I wasn’t ultra precise in grammar, and yes, my experiences does bias me a bit.

Though, in my experience, asking that question to people in China (or from there) is generally met with:

  * I don’t know, not interested in politics
  * Chinese people live there so they’re a part of China (not separating gov from race/ethnicity as a naive answer)
  * (no comment)

The KMT is now a modern political party much like any other, which generally performs very well in elections.

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