Timeline for Is South Korea a province of Korea?
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| Mar 29, 2021 at 5:52 | comment | added | dan04 | Note that there currently only 15 countries in the world that fully recognize the ROC as a sovereign state, with most of the world having switched to recognizing the PRC as "China". In contrast, all but four UN members (France, Japan, and the two Koreas themselves) recognize both Koreas. | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 5:01 | comment | added | obscurans | Regardless of recognition anywhere else, the truth on the ground is that ROC is the de facto government, which is fully stable and going nowhere without a future war. PRC exercises zero governmental authority there, regardless of territorial claims. The reverse also happens with nations recognizing civil warring parties, or even governments in exile as legitimate. Saying things doesn't (directly) make it so. | |
| Mar 27, 2021 at 16:59 | history | edited | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 27, 2021 at 13:04 | comment | added | r13 | The ROK and ROC share parallel in the tragic separation of a country, but end in different fate. The ROC has been prevented from keeping its seat, or rejoining, in UN, due to the cold political realities - population, size of market, strategic importance, and the increasing pressure from the Communist China, with ambitious to annex the "run away" province - Taiwan, regardless of the will of the 23 plus million people on the island. | |
| Mar 27, 2021 at 11:58 | comment | added | r13 | Note, The separation of Taiwan and China was caused by the civil war after WWII, and the wave/raise of communism that eventually infected a chunk of Indo-China. The loser of the civil war was actually, at the time, the governing body, which had legally represented China signing the Paris Peace Treaties, and been elected to hold permanent seat on the security council of UN, along with the US, UK, France and Russia. In recent years, Taiwan has not yet severed tie to the mainland China in the sense of national identity, except political standing - free society vs communist. | |
| Mar 27, 2021 at 8:15 | comment | added | James K | Not really majority vote, but power politics: USA UK Russia and France, along with China are the powers at the UN. Search our other quetions on how the RoC lost its seat to the PRC | |
| Mar 27, 2021 at 8:12 | comment | added | user37822 | I checked the list of UN members, and you are right that Taiwan is not on the list. I read that Taiwan is ineligible to be a member because it is considered by the majority of the world to be a province of China. Less less than 20 of the 193 UN members consider Taiwan to be a sovereign state. So it seems to be just a majority vote. | |
| Mar 27, 2021 at 7:14 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |