Taiwan’s ‘White Shirt Army,’ spurred by Facebook, takes on political parties

Taiwan is a self-governed sovereignty by most accounts, with its own economy, political system and military. It does not have mainstream international recognition from other countries however, most due to P.R China's pressure. For instance, Taiwan is not part of UN, major nations like US failed to acknowledge it as a independent country due to their reluctance to upsetting mainland China - who frequently threatens open war for such 'treacherous division of the one China'. Therefore, there are only 30 or so countries openly supports Taiwan's independence.

The morality of Taiwan's sovereignty debate obviously takes the narrative of a oppressive dictatorship and its democratic neighbor, but to claim Taiwan or RoC as the legitimate government of China and label P.R. China as the illegal, rogue ruler is far-fetched in the current world's landscape; after all the latter has taken control over the China for over half a century, wield much more political and economical power, and is widely acknowledged as a legitimate country for decades. It's almost like saying US is not a legitimate nation, rather ilegal rebellion against the Great Britain ever since some two hundred years ago.

Taiwan has never been part of the PRC. Before its current democratic system, it was a one-party state run by the KMT. Before that, it was under Japanese rule from the 1890s until WWII. Taiwan hasn't been governed by a China government since the Qing Dynasty. That particular country is long gone and is about as connected to the modern day PRC as Hungary is to the Hapsburg Empire.

It's not reunification if the two weren't previously unified.