Continuing to Wrestle with China, Why isn't Taiwan Considered a Country?

China and Taiwan continue to clash because of Taipei's ambition to become an independent country.
What is the history of Taiwan until it is not considered a sovereign country?

Taiwan continues to be in the spotlight after returning to dispute with China due to the arrival of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to Taipei on August 2.

China has always considered Taiwan as one of its rebellious provinces because it insisted on independence as a sovereign country.

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Taiwan continues to be in the spotlight after returning to dispute with China due to the arrival of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to Taipei on August 2.

China has always considered Taiwan as one of its rebellious provinces because it insisted on independence as a sovereign country.

Since then, Taiwan has established a self-governing system with a president as the head of state and has its own armed forces or military. Unlike China, Taiwan has until now had a democratic government.

After independence from Japan and before the Chinese Communist Party won the civil war, the international community recognized the KMT-led Republic of China as the official government of mainland China.

The Republic of China even became one of the founders of the United Nations (UN) and one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. However, the Republic of China's membership in the United Nations only lasted from 1945-1971.

Around the 1960s, the PRC began to attract the sympathy of the newly formed countries and joined the United Nations. Since then, the status of the Republic of China's official government has been increasingly questioned at the United Nations. China has repeatedly applied for membership in the United Nations as the official government of mainland China.

Until 1971, in the 21st ballot, the PRC's membership in the United Nations was finally accepted with 76 votes in favor, 35 votes against, and 17 abstentions. This result was embodied in UN General Assembly resolution 2758 in 1971.

Tsai Ing-wen, Presiden Republik Tiongkok

In the resolution, the UN General Assembly "recognised that the representative of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) led by Mao Zedong is China's sole official representative at the United Nations," according to the Chinese government's website.

Since then, the membership of the Republic of China, led by Chiang Kai-shekdari, has been excluded from the United Nations.

The UN statement was one of the reasons why finally the Republic of China, which is now called Taiwan, was later not categorized as a country.

Professor of History from the University of Saint Joseph, James Carter, in his writings in The China Project, revealed the reason the United Nations recognized the PRC was because it won the election on the resolution.

Taiwan's delegation to the United Nations at that time, Liu Chieh, seemed to know that the PRC's victory would happen. He then stood on the podium and confirmed that his government would no longer participate in the United Nations.

Liu then led the rest of the Taiwanese delegation out of the room. The event of Taiwan's defeat at the United Nations was even touted as "the biggest defeat of the United States in the history of the United Nations."

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Before the resolution was made, the US was one of the supporters of the Republic of China or now Taiwan. However, in 1971, many Western countries, including US allies, supported the PRC. This became one of the reasons why the PRC was later able to win a seat over China at the UN.

The US eventually changed its attitude by cutting off diplomatic relations with Taiwan in exchange for establishing official relations with China under the Communist Party. Even so, the US remains committed to a "special" relationship with Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act.

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