Edited sentence: But Taiwan is an island nation unto itself, even though the UN does not recogize it yet as such.China is China, Taiwan is Taiwan.Hainan Island is an island off the coast of mainland China, but Taiwan is not an island off the coast of mainland China.Hawaii has a mainland, the continental USA.In fact, as far as the nation of Taiwan is concerned there is no Mainland China.So use of this term Mainland China is often erroneous.Taiwan does not have a mainland.There is just China