An early experimental Chinese keyboard with many keys was developed by researchers of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, but it never came to the mainstream.

The People's Republic claimed Taiwan, though it had never held authority there.

Here Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo directed the city's defense from the Chengdu Central Military Academy, before the aircraft May-ling evacuated them to Taiwan ; they would never return to mainland China.

Li Hongzhang refused on the grounds that Taiwan had never been a battlefield during the first Sino-Japan War between 1894 and 1895.

What a formal declaration of independence would consist of is not clear and can be confusing given the fact that the People's Republic of China has never controlled Taiwan since its founding and the fact that the Republic of China, whose government controls Taiwan, is still a sovereign state as established at Nanjing in 1911, but its territory is limited to the province of Taiwan, Penghu, a part of the Nansha Islands and Diaoyutai island.

The Democratic Progressive Party states that Taiwan has never been under the jurisdiction of the PRC, and that the PRC does not exercise any hold over the 23 million Taiwanese on the island.

The Courts in Taiwan have never accepted President Lee's statement, primarily due to the reason that the ( now defunct ) National Assembly never officially changed the acclaimed national borders.

While the ROC continuously ruled Taiwan after the government was directed to Taiwan by the General Order No. 1 ( 1945 ) to receive Japanese surrender, there has never been a meeting of the ROC National Assembly in making a territory change according to the ROC constitution.

The explanatory memorandum to the constitution explained the omission of individually listing the provinces as opposed to the earlier drafts was an act of deliberate ambiguity: as the ROC government does not recognize the validity of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, based on Chiang Kai-shek's Denunciation of the treaty in the late 1930s, hence ( according to this argument ) the sovereignty of Taiwan was never disposed by China.

In respect of Taiwan political status, his policy was 1. he would not negotiate with the PRC on the subject of reunification during his term ; 2. he would never declare Taiwan independence ; and 3. he would not provoke the PRC into attacking Taiwan.

The state shall never allow the " Taiwan independence " secessionist forces to make Taiwan secede from China under any name or by any means.

In practice, official sources and state-controlled media never refer to the " ROC government ", and seldom to the " government of Taiwan ".

The PRC asserts itself to be the sole legitimate government of China, and claims Taiwan as its 23th province, even though the PRC itself has never had control of Taiwan or other ROC-held territories.

Technically, people living in mainland China are also Taiwan ( Republic of China ) citizens as Taiwan has never formally withdrawn its claim for the mainland.

In other cases, Plains aborigine families adopted common Han surnames, but traced their earliest ancestor to their locality in Taiwan.

A study in Taiwan of marriages where the future bride is adopted in the groom's family as an infant or small child found that these marriages have higher infidelity and divorce and lower fertility than ordinary marriages.

The Taiwan Relations Act does not require the U. S. to intervene militarily if the PRC attacks or invades Taiwan, and the U. S. has adopted a policy of " strategic ambiguity " in which the U. S. neither confirms nor denies that it would intervene in such a scenario.

This principle has been largely adopted for understanding Taiwan ’ s cultural representation and expressed in a variety of cultural activities, including music, film and the literary and performing arts.

In the mid-to-late 1990s the gestures of Taiwanization were increasingly adopted by pro-unification figures who, while supporting the Chinese nationalism of Chiang Kai-shek, saw it as appropriate, or at least advisable, to display more appreciation for cultures of Taiwan.

Moreover, in January 2005, Taiwan adopted a Westernized writing format for government documents, denied that it was an attempt at desinicization, and promoted the actions as " a concerted effort at globalizing Taiwan's ossified bureaucracies and upgrading the nation's competitive edge.

Similarly, all states that recognise the PRC either recognise the PRC as the legitimate representative of Taiwan or acknowledge the PRC's views on the matter — the latter is the position adopted by the United States, which prefers to leave that question ambiguous.

In 1982 President Ronald Reagan also saw that the Six Assurances were adopted, the fifth being that the United States would not formally recognize Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan.

The Philippines ( 1966 ) and Taiwan ( 1969 ) also adopted the NTSC system.

After many decades of avoiding its use, Taiwan formally adopted pinyin as its " New Phonetic System " in 2009, although it continues to allow its citizens to use other romanizations on official documents such as passports.

The system is also used in other Chinese-speaking areas such as Singapore and parts of Taiwan, and has been adopted by much of the international community as a standard for writing Chinese words and names in the Latin script.

DVB-T has been adopted or proposed for digital television broadcasting by many countries ( see map ), using mainly VHF 7 MHz and UHF 8 MHz channels whereas Taiwan, Colombia, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago and the Philippines use 6 MHz channels.

Taiwan ( Republic of China ) never adopted simplified characters, and Hong Kong and Macau were both colonial possessions until 1997.

Because Tongyong has not been adopted for language learning in Taiwan's schools, most natives of Taiwan continue to use other romanization methods ( usually modified Wade-Giles systems ).

Shortly before the proclamation of the Republic of Formosa, the Ch ' ing court ordered Li Ching-fang ( 李經芳 ), the nephew and adopted son of China's elder statesman Li Hung-chang, to proceed to Taiwan and transfer sovereignty over the island from China to Japan.

With the return of Taiwan to China in 1945, the Chinese reading of the characters 松山 ( i. e. Songshan ) was adopted.

Georgist ideas were also adopted to some degree in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Since then, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan and the European Union have adopted the program.

The meaning of " one China " adopted by the " national unification council " on August 1, 1992 says that " both sides of the Taiwan Straits agree that there is only one China.

Taiwan partially adopted this strategy, and attempted to begin a debate on the repeal of Resolution 2758 during the Fifty-Second General Assembly.

Mrs. Li Yapin ( 李亚频 ), a Chinese American and the owner / publisher of International Daily News was jailed by the Taiwanese government under the Kuomintang regime on September 17, 1985 during her visit to Taiwan, charged with spreading propaganda for the Communist government, partially because the paper used simplified Chinese characters adopted by the Communist regime.

Longlining has since been adopted by other fishermen, most notably South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States.

After the later establishment of the People's Republic of China and its adoption of Hanyu Pinyin, the use of Zhuyin today is limited, but it's still widely used in Taiwan where the Republic of China still governs.

* 1972 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.

* 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ( Treaty of Taipei ) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Burkina maintains diplomatic relations with the Republic of China ( usually referred to as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China.

; Taiwan / Republic of China

: The name " Republic of China " is not listed as Taiwan's " official name " under the " Government " section, due to U. S. acknowledgement of Beijing's One-China policy according to which there is one China and Taiwan is a part of it.

Though the United States refused to aide Chiang Kai-shek in his hope to " recover the mainland ," it continued supporting the Republic of China with military supplies and expertise to prevent Taiwan from falling into PRC hands.

Through the support of the Western bloc ( most Western countries continued to recognize the ROC as the sole legitimate government of China ), the Republic of China on Taiwan retained China's seat in the United Nations until 1971.

Costa Rica maintained official relations with the Republic of China ( commonly known as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China ( commonly known as " China ") until June 1, 2007, when it opened relations with China.

When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.

Confucian temple in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Deployment overseas began in 1954, first to West Germany and later to the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) and South Korea.

Both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) have designed several cruise missile variants, such as the well-known C-802, some of which are capable of carrying biological, chemical, nuclear, and conventional warheads.

Chiang moved the government to Taipei, Taiwan, where he formally resumed duties as President of the Republic of China on March 1, 1950.

The Republic of China regime on Taiwan continues to claim a much larger territory encompassing Mongolia and Tannu Uriankhai.

The Index assigns 53 countries to the next category, Flawed democracy: Argentina, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Ghana, Greece, Guyana, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mali, India, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Zambia

Dominica previously maintained official relations with the Republic of China ( commonly known as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China, but on 23 March 2004, a joint communique was signed in Beijing, paving the way for diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic.