COMMENTARY_ Why China’s ‘Taiwan Reunification’ shibboleth is a hoax

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Why China’s ‘Taiwan Reunification’ shibboleth is a hoax

Taiwan is a living refutation of communist determinism

China and Taiwan reunification illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times more>

COMMENTARY

By Miles Yu - Monday, October 27, 2025

OPINION:


China’s “reunification” slogan is a hoax sustained by fear, ideology and deception. Taiwan is not a rebellious province but a living refutation of communist determinism, a society that chose freedom over fear. Here are the 10 most salient reasons:


Taiwan has never been part of the People’s Republic of China

Not a single inch of Taiwan’s territory has ever been governed by the Chinese Communist Party. Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Taiwan has remained entirely outside its control politically, legally and militarily. The claim of “reunification” is therefore a deliberate falsehood: One cannot “reunify” with what was never unified.


Taiwan’s sovereignty is not an extension of the KMT-CCP civil war

Taiwan’s sovereignty and independence are not byproducts of the Kuomintang-Communist struggle. Nor are they rooted in ethnolinguistic connections with China. To claim otherwise mirrors the logic of Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine: invoking shared language and history to justify invasion. Taiwan’s modern sovereignty emerged not in 1911 with the fall of the Qing, nor in 1949 when the KMT fled to the island, but in the late 1980s when it democratized and ceased claiming to represent “China.” Like Ukraine after 1991, Taiwan’s statehood stems from its political awakening, not from the collapse of an empire.


International law rejects historical justifications for conquest

The 2016 Hague tribunal ruling against China’s South China Sea claims decisively refuted the use of “historical rights” as grounds for territorial claims. China’s “nine-dash line” was deemed legally baseless. The same principle applies to Taiwan: Ancient ties, migration or dynastic rule cannot justify modern annexation. Yet Beijing continues to weaponize history to justify expansion, pressuring neighbors such as India, Bhutan, Vietnam and Japan. Its behavior is that of a neo-imperial power, not a postcolonial victim.

The CCP’s motivation is ideological, not territorial

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