9 July 2012 UTC Thanks for that explanation which is genuinely interesting but doesn t of course impact directly on how we use English terms as I read the IP s comment as trying to suggest I also of course agree with the point that sometimes the English word Chinese does have a broader ethnic cultural meaning and sometimes therefore you might keep Taiwanese X as a subset of Chinese X food perhaps off the top of my head might be one such example However as we both seem to agree when people talk these days about Chinese people Chinese companies or Chinese law or whatever they are usually talking about things of or from the modern nation less Taiwan which is treated separately just as say we wouldn t generally make Austrian categories sub sets of German ones Categories of the formula X in Taiwan that had the X in China category included as a parent were especially problematic Anyway I think between us we ve picked most of them off 12 28