I know that Chiang Kai Shek ran away to Taiwan to continue the reactionary policies of the ROC. Although I admit that I don’t know as much about Taiwan and their connection with China as I would like. Has Taiwan always been a part of China? Do leftists in Taiwan care to join China or make their own communist state? Or is Taiwan independence mostly astroturfed? Sorry that I have so many questions, I want to learn more and searching for answers about Taiwan (especially about hypothetical independence scenarios) brings up “China, yay, 4000 years of history… Before IT , the unspeakable, happened!” Ok I’m exaggerating a bit lol but yk what I mean. Any answers are more than appreciated🫂🤗
Taiwan has been under Chinese influence since the Han dynasty 2000 years ago. After the fall of the Ming dynasty in the 1640s, a Ming prince fled to the island and set up his own rogue kingdom, which was reunified with the Qing dynasty in the 1680s. Taiwan then became a prefecture of Fujian Province until 1885, when it became its own province. Japan occupied it in 1895 and controlled it until 1945, when the Allies signed a treaty returning it to China, which was in a civil war at the time.