Taiwan

Taiwan is an island province off the southeastern coast of China that has enjoyed de facto independence since 1949 when the Kuomintang fled there following their defeat by the communists in the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
==History==
=== Reunification with the Mainland: 2019===
See Full Article: Taiwan Strait Crisis
As unemployment rose in China, the government once again tried to stir national fervor by invading Taiwan. The United States was rendered unable to assist the Taiwanese, being caught in the Second American Revolution. The PLA began mobilisation to seize the island. The PLAN mobilised its three carrier battle groups into the Taiwan Strait as well as preparing Chengdu J-20 Fighters, missiles and drones. On 9 March 2019, the PRC demanded that the ROC finally submit to the control of the mainland. Finally after nearly a month of threatening war, the ROC finally yielded to the mainland’s control as an autonomous region. However, Taipei maintained its own powerful military to defend its territory separate from the PLA. Taiwan only had to commit its armed forces to Beijing in the unlikely event of invasion by a third party. Taipei controlled and limited visitation by Chinese citizens from the mainland.
===2020-2040===
Taiwan continued to occupy a crucial place in the global supply chain after its formal reincorporation into the mainland, especially in the electronics and computer chip industries. Along with the mainland and Korea, Taiwan contributed to innovations that vastly reduced the costs and greatly increased the efficiency of solar power in the 2020s becoming an important supplier for the solar power industry. Tourism from the mainland to Taiwan increased dramatically.
Taiwan constructed an ultrafast maglev line along its western coast in the 2030s, making it possible to travel between all its major cities in a matter of minutes.
By 2040, China Railways began discussing plans to help fund the construction of a tunnel for maglev trains under the Taiwan Strait providing the first direct land link between the island of Taiwan and mainland China. Taipei did not approve the project, fearing the loss of its autonomy due to increased ease of travel by land from the mainland.
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