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Taiwan didn't leave China. Taiwan is where the legitimate government of China ran to when the communist revolution ocurred. Also, Taiwan was liberated from the Japanese by the United States and given to the Chinese government, (now in exile in Taiwan), to "administer". Technically, it is still US territory. The notion that Taiwan might secede is silly when it is the communist government of China which is currently in a state of mutiny while it occupies the mainland by force of tyranny.

The taiwan issue is in no way analgous to the attempted secession of the southern states.

Thanks for the info....I need to update my knowledge of the history of the Free China....things seem to be cookin' in that sphere. Time to put the hammer on the Red takeover of the Mainland China...

You and I may well have a disagreement about the legitimacy of the Kuomintang in 1949. And the fact Chiang Kai Shek survived as Generalissimo has less to do with his legitimacy than the 7th Fleet. I don't recall his rule, or his son's was all that popular with the Taiwanese, either.

Taiwan was a province, or some political subdivision of China long before Chiang washed up on it's shore, so the analogy ain't bad. What would have thought if the Brits and Frogs and taken the U.S position espoused now in 1861?

Does that mean I want to turn Taiwan over to the Chinese? No. But unless it's an independent country (You do remember Nixon's trip to China, and our subsequent recognition of that government?), the issue is the same it was in 1861 (perhaps more so. There was a substantial body of opinion in the antebellum US that held secession was allowed. Don't know if the Chinese have ever held that opinion-before or after Mao)