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a survey, original at 兩岸人民看領導人 差很大. Retrieved July 1, 2009. Also at Cross-strait poll finds differing perceptions

3.     How do you regard the people on the Mainland? (Question asked in Taiwan) They are business partners 53.6% They are friends 13.3%

4.     How do you regard the people on Taiwan? (Question asked in the Mainland) They are family and relatives 52.3% They are business partners 16.2%

Taiwan’s Evolving Identity

ROC renamed streets in Taipei

New York Times: Case Against Ex-Leader Stirs Unease in Taiwan "The case has prompted broader concerns about Taiwan’s legal code. Its detention and criminal procedure laws were drafted in the 1930s and early ’40s by Chinese Nationalist legal scholars who mainly looked to Nazi Germany for ideas. The Nationalists lost China’s civil war to the Communists and retreated to Taiwan, which they ruled under martial law until 1987, but essentially the same laws remain on the books."

Ma Ying-jeou AP article

Open letter on erosion of justice in Taiwan

Experts on Taiwan slam recent detentions

Taiwanese public opinion 2007年兩岸關係各界民意調查綜合分析

[Userboxes] Template messages/User talk namespace Template messages/Talk namespace Template:Fact Manual of Style (use of Chinese language) Articles for deletion Template messages/Sources of articles Free online resources U.S. Press Perpetuates Taiwan Myths I am not Chinese Ethnic Feuding Divides Parade For Harmony China’s Views of Sovereignty and Methods of Access Control Anthropologist asks provocative question Taiwan's post-post-coloniality Asia Times article that mentions China's attempts to claim Indian territory the same way it tries to claim Taiwan Washington-based group slams opposition arrests

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"...the Chinese Nationalist Government, which lost the civil war and fled to Taiwan to set up its government-in-exile..."

In latest poll numbers I can find, 2004, 6.3% of Taiwan's citizens consider themselves just Chinese. 45.4% consider themselves Chinese and Taiwanese. 45.7% consider themselves just Taiwanese. Taipei Times A Ministry of Foreign Affairs poll taken in 2001 "found 70% of people would support a name change to "Taiwan" if the island could no longer be referred to as the Republic of China." BBC

The number of people favoring Taiwanese nationalism can be read as either 45% or 70% depending on how you read the polls. The 70% number is probably closer because identifying as "Chinese" and "Taiwanese" may reflect some people using "Chinese" to denote their ancestry and cultural origins and "Taiwanese" to denote their current culture and country.

some polls and a source doc Nixon/Kissenger saying that in their formulation (apparantly of the Shanghai Communique), Taiwan independence is not precluded.

Interesting quotes on a Republic vs a Democracy

A bunch of essays on Taiwan's international status

Systemic bias by China