History of Taiwan & Mainland China

Both sides of the Taiwan Strait are territory of the Republic of China, and they carry its history.

Following the eight-year Second Sino-Japanese War, a full-fledged war broke out between the Kuomintang Party and the Chinese Communist Party. Due to repeated defeats in the conflict, the Central Government of R.O.C., which was ruled by the Kuomintang at the time, nearly lost control of mainland China.

As a result, in December 1949, the government was forced to relocate to Taipei City, Taiwan, and its effective jurisdiction was significantly reduced to Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, the Diaoyutai Islands (the Senkaku Islands), Pratas Island, and the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

In October of the same year, the Chinese Communist Party announced the foundation of "New China" in Beijing, ushering in more than 70 years of division-and-domination across the Taiwan Strait.

In recent years, the C.C.P. government has attempted to take Taiwan, China's sole remaining free region. After years of hard labor by the government and people of the R.O.C., Taiwan has achieved such a valuable and hard-won free, open, and democratic society. We must defend and protect this land, preventing it from becoming a closed society under the C.C.P.'s totalitarian tyranny.

A totalitarian government controls around 1.4 billion citizens of mainland China. Only a few people wield power, while others suffer much, are powerless to oppose, and cannot fully enjoy freedom of expression. The Chinese Communist regime has long crushed democratic movements and violated citizens' fundamental rights.

We all hope that all forces opposing the Communist rule will band together to resuscitate the Republic of China and restore democracy and freedom.