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    For its younger version when it once controlled the mainland, see Republic of Chinaball (1912-1949).

    Taiwan-icon.png Taiwanball, officially known as the Republic of Chinaball, is a semi-recognised island countryball, located in the Western Pacific Ocean and East Asia. It controls the island of Taiwan (formally known as Formosa), along with a few other tiny islands closer to China-icon.png Chinaball. Due to being an island, it has no borders, but its closest neighbors are China-icon.png Chinaball to the west, Philippines-icon.png Philippinesball to the south, and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan-icon.png Japanball to the east. Taiwanball is fully claimed by China-icon.png the PRCball, who wants to reunify with it by making them the Special Administrative Region of Taiwanball, like Hong Kong-icon.png Hong Kongball and Macau-icon.png Macauball.

    Taiwanball is divided into 2 nominal provinceballs, 6 special municipalityballs, 3 provincial cityballs, and 13 countyballs, including its capital Taipei-icon.png Taipeiball being one of the municipalityballs located in the North. It has 32,260 km² of clay, making it the 134th largest countryball if you recognise them (ahead of Guinea-Bissau-icon.png Guinea-Bissauball and behind Switzerland-icon.png Switzerlandball), and it is also the 57th most populous with >23,375,400 people, ahead of Sri Lanka-icon.png Sri Lankaball and behind Niger-icon.png Nigerball.

    Due to not being a fully recognized countryball, Taiwanball has not been able to join any sort of international organizations. They were temporarily a member of the UN-icon.png UNball, until it voted to recognise its China-icon.png communist sibling in 1971, 22 years after the Chinese Civil War ended. However, 47 countryballs have non-diplomatic relations and most if not all of them have de facto embassies run by Taiwanball. Most of these countryballs act like they do recognize it, but do not to not cause problems with China-icon.png Chinaball. Only 13 countryballs recognise it today, with that number slowly rising. Taiwanball also has 110 diplomatic missions.

    Unlike other unrecognised countryballs, Taiwanball is internationally called an independent countryball, and has a big economy (the 21st biggest by GDP and also by PPP), mainly made up of several kinds of manufacturing. Although they used to be a totalitarian martial law country in the past, they later transitioned from a one-party military dictatorship to a multi-party democracy with a semi-presidential system, compared to China-icon.png Chinaball's "Communist" semi-presidential one-party dictatorship.

    Taiwanball's birthday is on October 10, known as Double Tenth Day, which is different from other national day celebrations. Double Tenth Day always shows huge military parades, and has been observed since 1949.

    History (Island of Taiwan)

    The island of Formosa was born and later adopt by 1-icon.png many Chinese dynasties, up until the era of Yuan-icon.png Yuanball. Later two separate colonies got their hands over the island. One to Dutch Empire-icon.png Dutch Empireball in 1624 as a 7-icon.png 7ball, and one to Spanish Empire-icon.png Spainball as a 2-icon.png 2ball, unlike all other East Asian balls.

    They were given the name “Ilha Formosa” or “Beautiful Island” by Portuguese Empire-icon.png Portugalball. Dutch East Indies-icon.png Dutch Formosaball anschlussed its Spanish Formosa-icon.png Spanish sibling and kicked the Spanish in 1642. Formosa, under Dutch rule, leads to mass Han immigration which attracted Ming-icon.png Kingdom of Tungningball (fake Ming-icon.png Mingball) to occupy it as a base to strike back at Qing-icon.png Qingball, but the former wasn't very successful because Qingball kicked it out and became the new rulers of Formosa. In the 1880s, Franceball took control of areas close to Taipeiball but failed to take clay. USAball also tried but failed miserably.

    Many of the Hokkienballs from Qing-icon.png Qingball's Fujianball province, being the majority of the population right after the Hakka. In May, 1895, the Qingball[1] rulers were kicked out by Republic of Formosaball.

    In October 1895, Republic of Formosaball was occupied and annexed by Japanese-Empire-icon.png the Empire of Japanball. It spent the next 50 years with it.

    The Republic of China (1912-1949)

    From 1912, the Republic of China-icon (1912-1928).png Republic of Chinaball was born after killing Qing-icon.png Qingball.

    In 1945, after USA-icon.png USAball and Republic of Chinaball blew up the Empire of Japanball, Taiwan was given to the care of Taiwan-icon.png Nationalist Chinaball. To make sure that its soul would take over its clay without Japanese remnants, Taiwanball shot up much of Formosaball on February 28, 1947, in an incident known as 228. It also invited Mandarin teachers from the mainland to teach the inhabitants of its clay, who were speaking Japanese.

    To cement their claims over all of China, Formosa, Tibetball, and even Mongolia-icon.png Mongoliaball, Taiwanball wrote this in Section I, Article 4 of the Constitution of the Republic of China, 1947, saying "The territory of the Republic of China according to its existing national boundaries shall not be altered except by resolution of the National Assembly".

    But 2 years later, its big communist sibling China-icon.png Chinaball soon beat it and took over most of its sibling's clay. It was forced to flee to the island and its seat was stolen by China-icon.png Chinaball.

    Even at the island though, it didn't stop its right-wing totalitarian ways and instilled a political repression known as "White Terror" starting from the Feburary 28th incident (228) which killed 18,000-28,000 people. White Terror and repression to against "commies" saw it kill further hundreds and thousands of people on the island until 1987 when Chiang Kai Shek died and his son stopped one-party rule leading to the rise of DPP.

    In the 1960s and 70s it highly industrialized and saw huge economic growth known as the Taiwan Miracle.

    From late 1970s to 90s, after the Kaohsiung Incident which united the opposition, liberal reforms had transformed Taiwan-icon.png Taiwanball from a totalitarian military dictatorship under martial law to a more liberal democracy.

    Formosa was completely possessed by the ROC, both fused into today's Taiwanball.

    History (ROC)

    Republic of Chinaball (ROCball) was born in 1911 after its parent ​Qing-icon.png Qingball died. Its clay, inherited from its parent, had lots of foreign-occupied patches in it. In 1915, Empire of China-icon.pngit almost became another dynastic Chinaball like its parent and ancestors because of president/emperor Yuan Shi-Kai, and this resulted in it having lots of warlord cliques, including Communist-controlled Chinaball/Chinese Soviet Republicball, which both later merged into ​​Chinaball, who would in turn nearly defeat the ROC.

    In the 1920s, Nationalist Chinaball had lots of tumours, and diseases fought each other for control of its body. In 1928, it became a Unitary state. Empire of Japanball took advantage of this to expand its territory in East Asia, by taking one of its children, Manchuriaball, and turning it into Manchukuoball in 1931. In 1937, Japanball kidnapped and raped Republic of Chinaball, just as it was beginning to recover from its illnesses.

    It's estimated during the rule of KMT, Republic of Chinaball killed 3 - 18 million people due to political repression to the communist rebels. (some of them are innocents but being wrongly regarded as communist).

    However, when USA-icon.png USAball helped it defeat ​Japanese-Empire-icon.png Japanball in 1945, its rebellious communist sibling, ​China-icon.png Communist-controlled Chinaball, became ​China-icon.pngChinaball and injured it in 1949, while it fled to Taiwan Provinceball and was named Taiwanball. Some sources wrongly regard the Republic of Chinaball to die in 1949, when its dead soul supposedly took over Taiwan Provinceball's sould. This is not true, as the Republic of Chinaball was never been eliminated or has died after 1914. Republic of Chinaball is currently alive through recognised until 1971 (when the UN started recognizing Chinaball). It was part of the UN until 1971.

    Current Situation

    Taiwanball and China-icon.png its sibling both speak Mandarin, but Taiwanball uses traditional Chinese characters for writing , whereas China-icon.png PRCball uses simplified Chinese characters (except for Hong Kongball and Macaoball). Taiwanball also usually speaks Taiwanese Hokkien (or just Taiwanese/Taiwanese Dialect), which is a Hokkien language but has some European loan words. Both of the brothers differ greatly on their age. Taiwanball is 112 years old, while PRCball is only in its 70s.

    According to an opinion poll released by the Mainland Affairs Council taken after the second 2008 meeting, 71.79% of the Taiwanese public supported continuing negotiations and solving issues between the two sides through the semi-official organizations, SEF and ARATS, 18.74% of the Taiwanese public did not support this, while 9.47% of the Taiwanese public did not have an opinion.

    In 2015, a poll conducted by the Taiwan Braintrust showed that about 90 percent of the population would identify themselves as Taiwanese rather than Chinese if they were to choose between the two. 8% would like to reunify with China-icon.png PRCball. The rest (2%) did not answer.

    China-icon.png PRCball, especially the people of it, sees it differently, they see the situation as an embarrassment and a scar, seeing the situation as a North Korea and South Korea situation where a country's people are split based on politics which's why China-icon.png PRCball wants to reunify. Another, and maybe the more important reason, is, that Taiwanball is officially called "Republic of Chinaball" and Chinaball is officially called "People's Republic of Chinaball". Both sides have laws that only allow the existence of 1 "Chinaball" and therefore both claim the other. Taiwanball also claims Mongoliaball.

    Taiwanball is protected by USA-icon.png USAball and other allies. This means if China-icon.png PRCball attempts to anschluss it, it would face strong opposition from the allies, meaning that this could lead to countries stopping acknowledging the One China policy, financial sanctions, or the naval blockade of the Malacca Strait. Furthermore, USABall vowed that the US army would fight for Taiwan in a case of Chinese attack.


    Most other countryballs (including the USA) don't want to recognize Taiwanball as an independent countryball because they believe that China will stop trading with them, despite Taiwan loving to invest in them. But if you choose between 1.5 billion people to trade with or 23 million, usually one chooses the latter.


    When Taiwanball competes in international sports events, it does it under the name Chinese-Taipei-icon.png Chinese Taipeiball, technically not meant to make it seem Chinese, with its Mandarin name being Chunghwa Taipei, which means Taipei of the Chinese ethnic group. But as we discussed earlier, sadly, nearly nobody recognizes Taiwanball as the one and true Chinaball, which means that the "Chinese ethnic group" is a fancy way of saying Chinaball.

    In 2020, the Democratic Progressive Party President Tsai Ing-wen of the Pan-Green DPP was elected with a great majority, resulting in Han Kuo-yu's defeat.

    Recognition

    Africa

    Asia

    None

    North (and Central) America

    Europe

    Oceania

    South America


    Taiwanball has de facto recognition by most of the countryballs that support NATO.

    Flag Colors

    Color Name RGB CMYK HEX
    Red 254, 0, 0 C0-M100-Y100-K5 #F20000
    Cobalt Blue 0, 41, 204 C100-M80-Y0-K20 #0029CC
    White 255, 255, 255 N/A #FFFFFF

    Relationships

    朋友 (Friends)

    • USA-icon.png USAball - Best North American friend who helped me with their relationship with China-icon.png Chinaball, and with defense. But please recognize me again! I'll help you from Huawei Crisis! Thanks for sending Nancy Pelosi to my clay! Oh wait, I forgot, we are similar flags too!
    • Hong Kong-icon.png Hong Kongball - My best friend and former child who is taken by China-icon.png FAKE CHINA. I loved its curry fish ball and its milk tea!! My president Tsai supports your protests. I hope you can into Freedom and Democracy!! Unfortunately, that China-icon.png Chinaball signed the NSL, so we hope we'll help you someday...
    • Guatemala-icon.png Guatemalaball - It has been my longest ally since 1932. This China-icon.png communist is trying to trap it to withdraw my recognition. I hope you're doing well.
    • France-icon.png Franceball - Amazing partner, I love its pastries and takes on my classic bubble teas! I hope we can rule together one day! Also thank you for Oggy, it's one of the most popular cartoons in my clay narrated by the Taiwanese Cartoon Network. Fake China cannot into Oggy xixixi
    • Tibet-icon.png Tibetball - My good friend, but stop following my stupid sibling! (Just forget I claim you, okay?)
    • British Hong Kong-icon.png British Hong Kongball, Portuguese Macau-icon.png Portuguese Macauball, Uyghur-icon.png Uyghurball, Inner Mongolia-icon.png Inner Mongoliaball - Same as Tibetball!
    • South Vietnam-icon.png South Vietnamball - You are not the true Vietnam anymore, but I still remeber the good times we had, and it's still alive inside California.
    • Japan-icon.png Japanball - In 1937 at Nanjingball, Japanese-Empire-icon.png its parent raped Taiwan-icon.png me and got its cover blown. Well, sort of. Mainly because of Diaoyutai. REMEMBER ROC 1937 IN NANJINGBALL!!! Despite our past, it's a good friend in sports and we help each other a lot. Best friends in natural disasters (both have lots of earthquakes!). PLEASE RECOGNIZE ME AGAIN!!! Thanks for opposing that so-called UN Resolution 2758.
    • Okinawa-icon.png Okinawaball - Little sibling. Your soba noodles are good, I love you so much!
    • Brazil-icon.png Brazilball - It opposed the so-called UN Resolution 2758. I heard it just elected Jair Bolsonaro, good (I don't like fascists and right-wingists though), now we can remove the illegal Chinese government together. (why are you in BRICS?)
    • EU-icon.png EUball - We surprisingly have close ties.
    • Belarus-icon (old).png - Real Belarus.
    • FSA-icon.png - If you win, I believe/hope/pray you will establish diplomatic relations with me.
    • LGBT-icon.png LGBTball - Even if most of my friends hate yuo, yuo are welcome to my clay! We both hate China-icon.png pride parade destroyer!
    • Vatican-icon.png Vaticanball - They hate that China-icon.png Fake China and also i hab that awesome university in my clay, thank you sooooooooo much
    • South Korea-icon.png South Koreaball - My cousin. We had military solidarity and Korea was the last in Asia to leave me (1992). We don't have much of a good relationship after it decided to become "friends" with BAD China-icon.png Chinaball unless we still keep in touch without any Mainlander knew it. But most of the time, we team up to remove China-icon.png Fake China and North Korea-icon.png Fake Korea together. We also hate vodka and like strong burger.
    • ASEAN-icon.png ASEANcoin - Most of your members are into informal relations and we both hate China-icon.png Spratly Island Colonizer.
      • Malaysia-icon.png Malaysiaball - A lot of its 1-icon.png 1ball came to stay in my clay, also it gave us Michael Wong, Fish Leong, and Namewee... yadde yadde yada. Also we both did great handling coronavirus in our country, Noor Hisham is your version of our Chen Shih Chung.
      • Penang-icon.pngMy Hokkien brother - My Hokkien brother who like my dramas.
      • Thailand-icon.png Thailandball - We have informal relations, also a fellow member of the Milk Tea Alliance.
      • Singapore-icon.png Tringapore - It likes me more than China-icon.png China. Also a fellow member of the Four Asian Tigers. PLEASE RECOGNIZE , okay? Oh yeah sure, its because I'm chewing chewing gum?
    • Somaliland-icon.png Somalilandball - A democratic African country. You can take out that Somalia-icon.png corrupted Pirate freak because it's a mainland bootlicker. Sadly, only me and Ethiopia-icon.png Ethiopia recognize you.
    • Micronesia-icon.png Micronesiaball - It recognizes me now! :)
    • UK-icon.png UKball - Hong Kong's European and loved parent. It does not recognize me, but I'm glad that it calls me the Real China. But anyway, we fight the COVID-19 pandemic together. You will be my best friend in the future, yay!
    • Eswatini-icon.png Eswatiniball - I'm glad that it recognizes me for being the Real China.
    • Saudi Arabia-icon.png Saudi Arabiaball - Thank you for helping me build my bridge and train, and it also opposed UN Resolution 2758.
    • Kosovo-icon.png Kosovoball - We both hate China-icon.png this imposter and Serbia-icon.png Serbiaball like USA-icon.png USAball. But your Albania-icon.png sibling hates me.
    • Paraguay-icon.png Paraguayball - A very good friend. It recognizes me and lives on the other side of the world in terms of coordinates and says he will always be loyal to me.
    • Kazakh-icon.png Kazakhbrick - Even though we don't have informal relations, but most of people like my bubble tea and you also like Heunggong-icon.png my child so we're good.
    • Palau-icon.png Palauball - Japan-icon.png Japan's child! It promised that it won't recognize my China-icon.png evil sibling, and still, we maintain very good relations.
    • India-icon.png Indiaball - It hates China-icon.png Chinaball and Pakistan-icon.png Pakistanball, or at least has some bias against it, it does not recognize me. It is, however, improving its relations with me a lot, we buy tea from it to make bubble milk tea, and also gives us money. You could just have oppose UN Resolution 2758. JAI HIND!!
    • Lithuania-icon.png Lithuaniaball - We recently established representative offices and gave me some vaccines to fight COVID-19 together, literally better than Kiribati-icon.png that stupid traitor.
    • Nauru-icon.png Nauruball - It used to recognize my China-icon.png sibling but only for a short period. It apologized and recognized me again.....
    • Israel-icon.png Israelcube - We share a lot in common like for example we have a lot of bullies that ignore us. We are very developed allies of the USA-icon.png US and such... It may not recognize me officially, but we can help each other. However pl0x stop hurting Palestine-icon.png Palestineball, that's not nice.
      • Israel-icon.png - stupid antisemetic shit
    • Any country that recognizes Taiwan.
    • Libya-icon.png Libyaball - We both hate Muammar Gaddafi-icon.png Gaddafiball & China-icon.png Chinaball. I expect you'll establish representative offices with me soon.
    • Estonia-icon.png Estoniaball - You can into Nordic for sure.
    • Ukraine-icon.png Ukraineball - Control your friend Georgia-icon.png Georgiaball because it is friend with Fake China so I recognize Crimea-icon.png Crimeaball as yours.
    • Canada-icon.png Canadaball - A sibling of USA-icon.png USAball. He hosts my international students in British Columbia. I love him. Vancouver is real city of Canada
    • Spain-icon.png Spainball - It used to colonize my capital once, overall a huge dickhead. Even though we can into informal relations. In return, I opposed Catalonia-icon.png Cataloniaball's independence because it can into communism.
    • Colombia-icon.png Colombiaball - Although it don't recognize me, but we have a China-icon.png Venezuela-icon.png common enemy.

    中立 (Neutral)

    敵人 (Enemies)

    • China-icon.png I OWN YOU!!! - YOU BELONG TO ME!!! I AM OF REAL CHUNGHWA, YUO HEAR ME??? I HAVE RIGHT TO RULE YOU THE RIGHT WAY!!!! 1949 WHY? At least we're trading partners.. I WILL RESTORE DEMOCRACY TO THE HAN PEOPLE THE RIGHT WAY WITH THE THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE PEOPLE! LET ME MAKE THIS CLEAR. NONE OF MY SHOUTING IS MEANT TO SAY WE WANT POLITICAL REUNION THE RIGHT WAY!!! I DO NOT WANT BLOODSHED AT ANY PRICE. NO ONE WANTS A WAR AND NO ONE WANTS TO GET KILLED BY MILITARY! HAN PEOPLE SHOULD ALL LIVE IN HARMONY AND NOT FIGHT OVER ONE ANOTHER!! SO COMMUNIST CHINA!! DO NOT START A WAR WITH ME!! WE DO NOT WANT ANYONE KILLED! I WILL REMOVE THE COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP SOON!!
    • Tajik-icon.png Tajikistanball - Gorno-Badakhshan-icon.png Gorno-Badakhshanball was my clay!! I DON'T CARE IF YOU HATE ME SO GIB BACK GORNO!
    • 2b2t-icon.png 2b2t - YOU ARE PART OF ME AND YOU WERE MY CLAY AS WELL AND YOU BELONG TO ME!!
    • Russia-icon.png Russiaball - You against me for supporting THIS DICTATOR REGIME. Also, you are so homophobic that I can't have a good feelings for you. You are one of my ETERNAL ARCHENEMY! Also you invaded Ukraine-icon.png Ukraineball just like China-icon.png THAT DICTATORSHIP wants to CLAIM ME EH?!
    • Pakistan-icon.png Pakistanball - YOU BETRAYED ME! YOU'RE THE FIRST COUNTRY TO END MY RELATIONS AND JOINED BONDS WITH THAT China-icon.png Chinaball?!?! REMOVE RIGHT NOW!! I HOPE India-icon.png INDIA DESTROYS YOU MOTHERstupid! KASHMIR IS RIGHTFUL INDIAN CLAY! Second United China-icon.png I will send my robots to your clay if you dont STFU... Second United China-icon.png
    • Iran-icon.png Iranball - Stop bullying Saudi Arabia-icon.png Saudi Arabiaball, also a China-icon.png Fake China lover, homogay remover and an enemy of USA-icon.png USAball.
    • Syria-icon.png Syriaball - I want to knock you down because the FSA recognizes that I am a country, you China-icon.png fake China puppet. REMOVE ASSAD!
    • North Korea-icon.png North Koreaball - YUO ARE OF FAKE KOREA! ALSO A PRC PIGDOG, STOP F**KING THREATENING TO NUKE PEOPLE YOU BITCH!
    • Belarus-icon.png Belarusball - OH, IT IS OF DICTATORSHIP! ANOTHER PRC PIGDOG, STOP BRUTALLY SUPPRESSING THE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS YOU stupid! YUO ARE NO BETTER THAN China-icon.png FAKE CHINA WHO SUPPRESSES HUMAN RIGHTS AND INDIVIDUALISM!!! ROT IN HELL LUKASHENKO!! RESIGN NOW! Second United China-icon.png OR ELSE... Second United China-icon.png
    • Cuba-icon.png 古巴 - It is also into friends with my China-icon.png sibling so REMOVE Fidel Castro-icon.png FIDEL CASTRO!
    • Venezuela-icon.png Venezuelaball - Remove corruption! Even though Juan Guaido has no power yet to control you, BUT WHO CARES? REMOVE MADURO! Your taste of Socialism are so bad that you are of actually incredibly of beings an Authoritarian!
    • Serbia-icon.png Serbiaball - Leave Kosovo-icon.png Kosovoball alone and recognize it! It is also friend with that China-icon.png imposter.
    • Kiribati-icon.png Kiribatiball - THIS TRAITOR SUPPORTS FAKE CHINA NOW!!
    • Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaitball (only in football) - FOR TRASHING ME OUT IN FOOTBAll!! 10-0 NEVER FORGET!
    • Algeria-icon.png Algeriaball - It is of friends with the China-icon.png imposter and my enemies so REMOVE KISRA FROM THE PREMISES!
    • Nicaragua-icon.png Nicaraguaball - WHY DON"T YOU RECOGNIZE ME ANYMORE??!?
    • Micronesia-icon.png Micronesiaball (formerly) - WHY THE FUCK DID YOU RECOGNIZE THE MAINLAND?!?
    • Egypt-icon.png Egyptball - I'M SORRY IF I BLOCKED YUOR CANAL!!
    • John Cena - Shame on you for apologizing to China-icon.png that impostor just because you called me a country. (Still tho, thanks)
    • Indonesia-icon (Songkok).png Sukarno - Why did yuo ban me from the Asian games 1962?? Why!!

    Counties

    Taiwanball has currently 13 counties.


    Gallery

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