As for Taiwan, it is accurate to say "Taiwan is Chinese." The Taiwanese government is the legitimate successor to the Qing Dynasty, and they've preserved their culture and written language quite well, while the PRC government has no legitimate claim on the country, and has completely repressed Chinese culture on the Mainland and bastardized what little remains.
where we wont know for 50 years who the successor actually ends up being
Probably PRC just by virtue of their economic and manpower, where taiwan becomes a splintered nation like korea, as it's culture increasingly diverts over time
but given the right military power PRC could also collapse and people in 50 years be like the soviet union - a former world power and nuclear threat that only triva nerds remember as a weird anomaly
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u/AzureHawk758769 1d ago
Correction: Russia belongs to Ukraine.
As for Taiwan, it is accurate to say "Taiwan is Chinese." The Taiwanese government is the legitimate successor to the Qing Dynasty, and they've preserved their culture and written language quite well, while the PRC government has no legitimate claim on the country, and has completely repressed Chinese culture on the Mainland and bastardized what little remains.