TAIWAN Definition & Meaning

Taiwan

[ tahy-wahn ]

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noun

Wade-Giles, Pinyin.

an island separated from the southeast coast of China by the Taiwan Strait: a possession of Japan 1895–1945; restored to China 1945; seat of the Republic of China since 1949. : Taipei.

Taiwan

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noun

an island in SE Asia between the East China Sea and the South China Sea, off the SE coast of the People's Republic of China: the principal territory of the Republic of China; claimed by the People's Republic of China since its political separation from mainland China in the late 1940s. Pop: 23 299 716 (2013 est) Former nameFormosa

Taiwan

Island nation in the Pacific Ocean near the mainland of southern China ; seat of the Republic of China . Its capital and largest city is Taipei .

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Notes

With its first free elections in the 1990s, Taiwan has become a democracy . Its economy is among the strongest in the world.

The United States long supported the Nationalists but broke relations in 1979 to establish relations with the People's Republic of China .

China refuses to accept Taiwan's independence as a nation, viewing it instead as merely a renegade province of China. This issue continues to complicate relations between the United States and China.

When the Chinese communists came to power on the mainland, the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek and some of his army took refuge on Taiwan.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Taiwan¹

First recorded in 1920–25; from Chinese (Mandarin) Táiwān

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Example Sentences

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Antonovich said the only time he felt pressure from the Chinese government was before Double Ten Day, a national holiday in Taiwan on Oct.

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Taiwan has condemned Somalia for banning travellers with Taiwanese passports from entering or transiting through the East African country.

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Today their descendants make up a diaspora of nearly six million stretching from the United States and Canada to France, Germany, Japan and Taiwan.

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Competing claimants such as Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei have staked claims on islands and various zones in the sea.

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In March, a county resident who had recently traveled through Los Angeles International Airport on a China Airlines flight from Taipei, Taiwan, tested positive.

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