What is Formosa?
What is Formosa?
What's its status going to be in 10 years?
Whats going to happen?
Will they ever declare independence?
How would China react?
How would the US react?
How would everyone else react?
Actually, Taiwan is not really recognised by many countries as a country. Here, it is simply referred to as a "territory".
The problem is, both the Taiwanese and the Chinese sees themselves as the rightful ruler of China. So declaring independence would require the Taiwan people to give up their sovereignty.
That is of course the overview. There are lots of practical reasons not to declare independence too.
I thought Taiwan was already independent as the Republic of China...
Not really, Taiwan is de facto an independant state but claims to be The Republic of China, ruling all of China since 1912. Declaring independance would mean they admit they are just Taiwan and not China.
has asked Taiwan's top economic planners to conduct a feasibility …
TAIPEI (AFP) – Taiwan is considering building a bridge to mainland China in the latest sign of warming ties between the cross-Strait rivals, an official said Thursday.
President Ma Ying-jeou asked Taiwan's top economic planners to conduct a feasibility study when he visited Kinmen, a Taiwan-controlled fortified island group off the Chinese mainland, in August.