On the CCP's White Paper "The Taiwan Issue and China's Reunification"—There Only Is an Issue of China, Not an Issue of Taiwan

Abstract

The Republic of China (ROC), which was created in 1912, succeeded the territory and complete national sovereignty of governments of successive dynasties of China. Therefore, it is simply called "China" in the international community. Ten years after the founding of the ROC, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was formed under the direction of the Comintern (Third International) and then expanded its forces by taking advantage of the opportunity of Japan's invasion of China. In 1949, the CCP, under the support and assistance of the former Soviet Union, took control of the mainland area of the ROC by force and declared the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on October 1 of the same year. The CCP set up a different state on the mainland area and the government of the ROC was relocated to the Taiwan area, and since then, two mutually exclusive regimes have coexisted in China, and thus the so-called issue of China emerged in the international community.