I always get curious about unrecognized states. I check the “T” section and there is no option for a “Taiwan” lol.
Didn’t mean to make this political, just found it intriguing.
(Also fun fact: My grandmother is literally older than the country I was born in, PRC, in a way, she was technically born in a different country (ROC) than I was born in… well… I mean, same land, but a different state/government.)
That is, in fact, their official name, according to them.
according to them; but it’s still remarkable that the US federal government uses that name because https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/chapter-48 keeps referring to it as “Taiwan” and § 3301 even talks about “the governing authorities on Taiwan recognized by the United States as the Republic of China prior to January 1, 1979”
Yep, though ROC government uses also “Republic of China (Taiwan)” or other similar forms to differentiate from PRC in official communication.
Taiwan is the name of the island, while ROC technically extends further to areas now controlled by PRC
Well that’s what I just learned skimming through the wiki page.
De jure, the RoC extends to all of China. So does the PRC. De facto, the RoC is pretty much just Taiwan and the PRC is the rest.
De jure the ROC still claims Mongolia and parts of Russia and India.
TIL.
They are a feisty little island, aren’t they.