{"id":29597,"date":"2018-05-06T03:50:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T03:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29597"},"modified":"2018-05-06T03:50:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T03:50:07","slug":"earth-to-beijing-taiwan-is-a-nation-not-a-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29597","title":{"rendered":"Earth to Beijing: Taiwan is a nation, not a ‘province’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The People’s Republic of China is engaging in what the White House calls “Orwellian nonsense.”<\/p>\n

The PRC is angry at private commercial air carriers because they refer to Taiwan as a “country.”<\/p>\n

Oh, brother.<\/p>\n

It’s complicated.<\/p>\n

Taiwan broke away from China in 1949 after a bloody civil war. The communists kicked the Nationalist Party out of power. The Nationalists moved to Taiwan and set up a separate government. The PRC runs the mainland; Taiwan has taken on a new identity, although it is not recognized throughout most of the world as a sovereign state. China calls Taiwan a “renegade province” and has vowed to take it back — by force if necessary.<\/p>\n

Believe me. It is. I’ve been to Taiwan five times since 1989. It is a country.<\/p>\n

Thus, the White House’s criticism<\/a> of the PRC is on point. As The Hill reported: “This is Orwellian nonsense and part of a growing trend by the Chinese Communist Party to impose its political views on American citizens and private companies,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sanders also\u00a0vowed that “China\u2019s efforts to export its censorship and political correctness to Americans and the rest of the free world will be resisted.”<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“The United States strongly objects to China\u2019s attempts to compel private firms to use specific language of a political nature in their publicly available content,” she said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sanders is correct to condemn China for seeking to dictate to private firms how it should refer to countries — and governments — with which they do business.<\/p>\n

Taiwan operates in a sort of parallel universe with the rest of the world. The United States withdrew its diplomatic recognition of Taiwan — officially known as the Republic of China — in 1978. The United Nations expelled Taiwan at that time so that the PRC could join the body.<\/p>\n

Yet, Taiwan continues to function as a de facto<\/em> independent nation, although it has never officially declared its independence from the PRC. Taiwan has flourished and has become a vibrant state that functions with many of the trappings of sovereignty without the actual designation.<\/p>\n

As for the People’s Republic of China, it need not impose its political will on private firms.<\/p>\n\n

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The People’s Republic of China is engaging in what the White House calls “Orwellian nonsense.” The PRC is angry at private commercial air carriers because they refer to Taiwan as a “country.” Oh, brother. It’s complicated. Taiwan broke away from China in 1949 after a bloody civil war. The communists kicked the Nationalist Party out … Continue reading Earth to Beijing: Taiwan is a nation, not a ‘province’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3694,4500,5014,5246],"class_list":["post-29597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-prc","tag-taiwan","tag-united-nations","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29598,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29597\/revisions\/29598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}