Is Taiwan Next? (country, people, move, cons)

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This is mostly the story by Sarah Topol of a young woman becoming more of an activist, but there was also some good explaining about the difficult history of Taiwan.


Is Taiwan Next?
China had always denied that Taiwan existed as a separate country, dismissing it as a wayward province and using its increased global clout to gradually erase Taiwan’s existence.
Ever since Nancy was little, she was a contrarian — unafraid to rebel against things she thought were stupid or unfair, like how teachers seemed to favor students who got good grades, even if they had been misbehaving along with the rest of the class. When she was growing up in Taipei, there were lots of things that just did not make sense to her. It did not quite add up that her schoolbooks said Taiwan was a province of the greater Republic of China (R.O.C.), which comprised mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, and that its capital was Nanjing. Nanjing was a city in the People’s Republic of China, where Nancy had never been, so why was it listed as the capital of her country? When she challenged her teacher, she told her to just do what everyone else was doing — write the correct answer and move on.
https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/taiwan-next

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And more.

Very brave, all things considered.


‘We are Taiwanese’: China’s growing menace hardens island’s identity
More than ever, Taiwanese are embracing an identity that is distinct from that of mainland China, a shift that is partly generational.
To Wang, who fled the mainland decades ago, being Chinese is about celebrating her cultural and familial roots. She paints classical Chinese ink landscapes and displays them on the walls of her home. She spends hours practicing the erhu, a two-stringed traditional Chinese instrument. She recounts stories of a land so beloved that her grandparents brought a handful of soil with them when they left. She still wonders what happened to the gold and silver bars they had buried beneath a heated brick bed in Beijing.
https://indianexpress.com/article/wo...ntity-7731278/