A History of China’s Claim to Taiwan

Mao Zedong once said that Taiwan should be independent, but the Chinese Communist Party has since changed its mind on the ‘renegade province’. How Chinese is Taiwan?

A soldier beneath a photo of Chiang Kai-shek inside the army gymnasium, Taipei, 1950s © Fernand Gigon/Getty Images.
A soldier beneath a photo of Chiang Kai-shek inside the army gymnasium, Taipei, 1950s © Fernand Gigon/Getty Images.

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