Lai Ching-te argues the reverse may be true because the Republic of China ā the mantle that nationalists carried with them to Taiwan ā predates the communist Peopleās Republic
It is āimpossibleā for the Peopleās Republic of China to become Taiwanās motherland because Taiwan has older political roots, the islandās president has said.
Lai Ching-te, who took office in May, is condemned by Beijing as a separatist. He rejects Beijingās sovereignty claims, saying the island is a country called the Republic of China that traces its origins back to the 1911 revolution overthrowing the last imperial dynasty.
The Chinese nationalist government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedongās communists. Mao set up the Peopleās Republic of China, which continues to claim self-governed Taiwan as its territory.
Itās more the āmotherlandā claim. Most indigenous Americans support the U.S. government. Theyāll even sometimes proudly fight for America in the U.S. military. That doesnāt mean theyād appreciate it if Trump or Biden said that the U.S. was the motherland of white people.
The thing is, heās directly saying that China isnāt their motherland because their government was born first. Heās saying that although their government used to control China, its home is Taiwan now. The DPP is against the idea of reclaiming the mainland or claiming too much heritage or symbolism from the mainland as they are the pro-independence party in Taiwan
Like I said, I kind of get what heās saying. I just donāt know that it was put well. Maybe it works better in Chinese and itās just a translation thing.
Itās sometimes hard to translate things like this into English well so that would make sense