Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China (ROC), is an island separated from China by the Taiwan Strait. Mainland ...

Newsweek maps ... China with practical actions." The Republic of China is the official name for Taiwan, used by the nationalist government that fled to the island after losing the Chinese Civil ...

China sees self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province that will ... after the Qing empire lost the first Sino-Japanese war. Then in 1945, after Japan lost World War Two, China took the island ...

China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has over the past five years staged almost daily military activities around the island, including war games that have ...