In fact, China and Taiwan never officially recognized each other as legitimate governments. It is true that the majority of the Taiwanese people are descendents of the emigrated Chinese. However, these who were born and raised in Taiwan are now considered citizens of Taiwan, not citizens of China. Taiwan started as an underdeveloped nation and independently rose to become a highly developed one today. Taiwan s prosperous economy is so appealing that China, who never once valued Taiwan s existence during the past four hundred years, now wants to claim the island as part of their country so as to benefit from its flourishing economy.
China is a developing communist country that has amazing economic potential.
It wants to unify Taiwan so it can use Taiwan s already successful economy, receive the advantages of Taiwan s strong international trading ability, and thus to build a strong China. China would not claim Taiwan as its province today if Taiwan were still a third world country that couldn t feed its own people. From the domestic point of view, Taiwan enjoys a distinct form of government that is incompatible with that of the Chinese. Taiwan has overcome obstacles to reach its true democratic society today. It took Taiwan about forty years to have their first presidential election.