China vs. Taiwan
One of the longest going conflicts of the 20th century is the one between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of Taiwan (ROC). Taiwan was once a province of China. In 1863, the Qing Dynasty took control of Taiwan eventually making it, its own province in 1885 (Spence, 1999). After falling to the Japanese during the First Sino-Japanese War, it returned to Chinese control, under the authority of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in 1945. Today, while Taiwan may seem to be a fully functioning nation-state; it is officially, still considered by both the Chinese Communist Party ( ...
