After the passing of Chiang Kai-Shek, the next president, Chiang's son, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Chiang Ching-kuo's successor, Lee Teng-hui a native Taiwanese, would, in the 1980s and 1990s, increase native Taiwanese representation in the government and loosen the many authoritarian controls of the early era of ROC control in Taiwan.

The ultimate goal of the party was the overthrow of the Dalai Lama's regime, and the creation of a Tibetan Republic which would be an autonomous Republic within the ROC.

Nouakchott's authorities declared that the government would likely seek international arbitration, which Woodside ( which operated for Hardman, BG Group, Premier, ROC Oil, Fusion, Petronas, Dana Petroleum, Energy Africa and the Hydrocarbons Mauritanian Society ) also contemplated.

On 25 April 2007, the Premier of the Republic of China Su Tseng-chang, announced that St. Lucia and the ROC would resume formal diplomatic relations.

However, Taipei did not demand that ties be broken with Beijing and ROC Foreign Minister Eugene Chien said that he would not reject having both sides of the Taiwan Strait recognized simultaneously.

The lowest level of organization, which normally would be a single ROC building and its attendees, headed by a priest who acts as Father superior (, nastoyatel ), constitute a parish (, prihod ).

Many supporters of Taiwanese independence fear that unification would hurt the democratic progress in the ROC ; and some contend that Taiwan is not part of China.

The official policy of the Republic of China, the government that has ruled Taiwan since acquiring it from Japan in 1945, supports Chinese reunification in the sense that the united body would be governed by the ROC, and not the PRC.

However, in December 1978, U. S. President, Jimmy Carter announced that the United States would no longer recognize the ROC as the legitimate government of China.

Instead of the year 2006 being referred to as the " 95th year of the ROC " -- with the 1912 founding of the Republic of China being referred to as " the first year of the ROC " -- the year 2006 would be identified as 2006 in official usage such as on banknotes, IDs, national health insurance cards, driver's licenses, diplomas and wedding certificates.

The ROC legal theory, which is supported by the pan-blue coalition, suggests that any fundamental constitutional changes would require that the amendment procedure of the ROC constitution be followed.

In 1991, President Lee Teng-hui unofficially claimed that the government would no longer challenge the rule of the Communists in mainland China, the ROC government under Kuomintang ( KMT ) rule actively maintained that it was the sole legitimate government of China.

The task of changing the national borders now requires a constitutional amendment passed by the Legislative Yuan and ratified by a majority of all eligible ROC voters, which the PRC has implied would constitute grounds for military attack.

In 1999, ROC President Lee Teng-hui proposed a two-state theory ( 兩國論 ) in which both the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China would acknowledge that they are two separate countries with a special diplomatic, cultural and historic relationship.

From the perspective of the ROC constitution, which the mainstream political parties such as the KMT and DPP currently respect and recognize, changing the ROC ’ s governing status or completely clarifying Taiwan ’ s political status would at best require amending the ROC constitution.

In other words, if reunification supporters wanted to reunify Taiwan with mainland China in such a way that would effectively abolish the ROC or affect the ROC ’ s sovereignty, or if independence supporters wanted to abolish the ROC and establish a Republic of Taiwan, they would also need to amend or abolish the ROC constitution and redraft a new constitution.

Following the abandonment of Legalism in China after the Qin Dynasty, Confucianism became the official state ideology of China, until it was replaced by the " Three Principles of the People " ideology with the establishment of the Republic of China, and then Maoist Communism after the ROC was replaced by the People's Republic of China in Mainland China.

Since then, the People's Republic of China has been involved in disputes with the ROC over issues of sovereignty and the political status of Taiwan.

At the end of World War II in 1945, Taiwan was taken over by the ROC forces who, then, ruled most of mainland China.

In April 2005, the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) general secretary Hu Jintao and the former ROC Vice President and then chairman of the Kuomintang party ( KMT ) Lien Chan shook hands.

He then visited Nanjing, the former capital of the Republic of China, where he visited the tomb of ROC founder Sun Yat-sen. After a brief visit to Shanghai, Soong made an emotional return to his ancestral home in Hunan province.

Early in his presidency, Hu faced an independence-supporting counterpart in then ROC president Chen Shui-bian.

After a mandatory 180-day promulgation period, the amendments are then to be ratified by at least fifty percent of all eligible voters of the ROC irrespective of voter turnout.

Seventeen National Assembly delegates selected by the ROC government to represent Taiwan Province in a photo with then President Chiang Kai-shek in 1946

In ROC information and services are identified by logical addresses which are resolved to physical endpoints for the duration of a request and then released.

* Mori promised then newly elected ROC President Chen Shui-bian that he would celebrate if Chen won the 2000 presidential elections.

ROC ambassador to the UN, Liu Chieh, then withdrew and after that the PRC ambassador to the UN, Qiao Guanhua and the delegation entered the hall.

In December 2004 the ROC Legislative elections, although the then ruling DPP party actually increased its share of votes in the legislature and remained the largest single party there, the pan-blue coalition maintained a razor-thin majority, which surprised many.

ROC analysis since then has been used in medicine, radiology, biometrics, and other areas for many decades and is increasingly used in machine learning and data mining research.

Historically most of the stations have opposed, in some manner, the political establishment represented by the Chinese Nationalist Party ( Kuomintang ) and the Republic of China ( ROC ) framework, in favour of the then opposition movement broadly consisting of the Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) and allied social movements.

President Truman later ordered John Foster Dulles, then Foreign Policy Advisor to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, to carry out his decision on neutralizing Taiwan in drafting the Treaty of Peace with Japan of 1951 which excluded the participation of both the ROC and PRC.

The Soviet Union later handed over these weapons to China ( ROC ), who then buried them.

Two weeks afterwards police officers of the Palestinian Authority arrived and by " assaulting and cursing priests and nuns " they managed to evict the ROCOR clergy and then turned over the property to the ROC.

From the political perspective, according to the PRC argument, the government of the Republic of China ceased to be legitimate following its retreat to Taiwan in 1949, and thus all sovereignty and governmental authority in China was automatically transferred to the PRC, including that of Taiwan which was then under ROC administration.

The British Armed Forces then set up an intelligence gathering centre in Siu Sai Wan, one of the largest in the Far East, to monitor wireless communications from the then Republic of China ( ROC ), present day People's Republic of China ( PRC ).

In 1945, Japan was defeated in World War II and surrendered its forces in Taiwan to the ROC, then ruled by the Kuomintang ( KMT ).

While the idea was popular with the Taiwanese public, it proved difficult with the Republic of China ( ROC ) government of Taiwan, then led by the Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ).

The ROC government has in the past actively pursued the claim as the sole legitimate government over mainland China and Taiwan.

Taiwanization's influence on the government of the ROC has caused instability: after the Communist Party of China expelled the ROC in the Chinese Civil War from most of Chinese territory in 1949 and founded the PRC, the ROC's Chinese Nationalist government, which still held Taiwan, continued to claim legitimacy as the government of all of China.

Within Taiwan, there is a distinction between the positions of the Kuomintang ( KMT ): the Kuomintang also believes in the " One China Principle " and maintains its claim that under the ROC Constitution ( passed by the Kuomintang government in 1947 in Nanjing ) the ROC has sovereignty over most of China ( including by their interpretation both mainland China and Taiwan ) and, according to some interpretations of that constitution, Mongolia.

When the Republic of China government was relocated to Taipei in 1949 as a result of the Kuomintang's ( KMT ) defeat by the Chinese Communist Party forces in the Chinese Civil War, the provincial administration remained in place under the claim that the ROC was still the government of all of China even though the opposition argued that it overlapped inefficiently with the national government.

By contrast, the ROC desired good relations with overseas Chinese as part of an overall strategy to avoid diplomatic isolation and maintain its claim to be the sole legitimate government of China.

Although the administration of pro-independence President Chen Shui-bian ( 2000 – 2008 ) did not actively claim sovereignty over all of China, the national boundaries of the ROC have not been redrawn.

Second, because of the ROC ’ s claim to rule all of China, the vast majority of the seats in the Legislative Yuan ( parliament ) and National Assembly ( electoral college for the president, now abolished ) were held by those elected from mainland China constituencies in 1947 and 1948.

Until 1991, the ROC also actively claimed to be the sole legitimate government of China, and during the 1950s and 1960s this claim was accepted by the United States and most of its allies.

On the other hand, although policy has changed, and the ROC Government now focuses on representing the interests of the island of Taiwan, formally, the ROC still claims to be the Chinese State, and thus its juridical claim to the right to govern the whole of China still holds.

Although the PRC, ROC ( Taiwan ) and Philippines all claim the island, no clashes have been recorded since 1975.

Taiping Island () is named in honor of a Nationalist Chinese Navy warship which sailed to the island in 1946, which allowed the ROC to assert its claim to the Spratly Islands in 1947.

Hsiao supported amending the Nationality Law to allow individuals born to at least one parent of ROC nationality to also claim ROC nationality irrespective of age, and has also proposed and cosponsored anti-discrimination and anti-domestic violence amendments to the Immigration Act.

In so far as claims are concerned, the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), the Republic of China ( ROC ; on Taiwan ) and Vietnam claim the entire archipelago.