When I was living in Monterey California, I had felt small tremors, but they were nothing compared to this earthquake. It can make an atheist think about God. The latest thing to happen around here would be the election on March 18, 2000. Taiwan people have elected a new president, a president who, in the past, has expressed his desire, and that of his party, the DPP, to become a sovereign nation. True and false.
China claims that Taiwan is a province of China, thus China claims to own Taiwan.
Because of the Taiwan Government s stance to play reunification politics with China, the outside world acknowledges Taiwan as a Republic of China, hence the R.O.C. seen written after the word Taiwan . China threatens they will forcibly take control of Taiwan, if the island does not hand over control by some yet to be negotiated date. For 50 years, Taiwan has been a self-governing island with, until very recently, very little direct ties to China. This is a basic simplified report of what is happening here. You know politics make it much more complicated than can be told in one paragraph by an outsider.