Taiwan and China: friends, foes or fr-enemies

For the first time ever since 1949 the Chinese and Taiwan presidents are to meet each other in a summit that is to take place this Saturday in Singapore Both the states have a history of long standing sour relations. Taiwan gained its independence in 1911 after the fall of china’s last dynasty and was ruled by the same government as that of mainland chain until 1949 when communists took over the mainland china. It was to Taiwan where the nationalist Chinese government fled in 1949 after the communist party took over mainland chain. Although both Taiwan and china now have separate sovereign governments that rule the island of Taiwan (also called republic of china) and the mainland china (peoples republic of china) respectively; anyhow both of them refuse to acknowledge the others authenticity. It was not until 1990’s that the two agreed to cooperate when representatives from both the country met in Singapore and after that meeting both the countries opened doors to each other for trade and tourism.

                This meeting for sure is an important one; Major counties including United States are looking forward to the happenings of this meeting. Any how the current president of Taiwan who is from the nationalist party is criticized by the opposition democratic progressive party DPP that it is an attempt to increase it electoral pool as elections in Taiwan are coming near.

Aria Khan

link: http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/04/asia/china-taiwan-explainer/index.html