[RightWhale]

belonging to China

Really?

[starbase]

belonging to China

Really?

Well one dirty little secret around here is that the "Taiwanese" language isn't a language at all. They speak Mandarin here for one thing, and for another the "local" language is really the Fukienese dialect of Chinese, Fukien is a province in South Eastern China.

Fukien Chinese came here 2 or 3 hundred years ago and have been here ever since, so it is indisputably Chinese. Plus the unique Chinese writing is pretty hard to miss. While there are many ways to parse the "ownership" conversation, in actual fact there is no way to deny that the people here are, and have always been, Chinese. The Chinese have a list of arguments such as a Japanese almanac from the 1700's stating that Taiwan is Chinese, I don't want to reiterate all of their arguments, but from an objective viewpoint it is a Chinese island.