The Taiwan Independence Movement

Taiwan did not become Chinese territory until until the China Dynasty conquered the Koxinga's regime on Taiwan in 1693. During the China dynasty control, Taiwan was a domestic colony for 212 years and was given to Japan in 1895. Taiwan became a Japanese colony for the next 50 years. In 1895, the Taiwanese declared the establishment of the Taiwan Democratic Republic, but its original intention was prevention for a Japanese takeover and restoration of Taiwan to the China dynasty. Within …showed first 75 words of 401 total…

…showed last 75 words of 401 total…it up, the Taiwan independence movement is based upon the fact that fifty years of Japanese colonization and modernization policies have forged a new Taiwanese nation distinctly separate form the exploitation and the oppression of the Taiwanese by Chiang's Nationalist government, the emergence of the Peoples Republic of China in the international political stage; and the expulsion of the Nationalist government from the U.N. all prompted and revitalize the activities of the independence movement.