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China and Taiwan Quiz
Ten questions on the dispute across the Taiwan Strait, from the Nationalists' retreat to the island in 1949 to the missiles and opinion polls that shape it today.
- 10 questions
- About 3 minutes
- Medium
- Includes a map
About this quiz
China's civil war never formally ended. It stopped in 1949 with two governments on opposite sides of the Taiwan Strait, each claiming to be the real China. The quiz covers that split and what followed: the founding father both sides claim, the fight over China's seat at the United Nations, the Taiwan Relations Act, the 1996 missile crisis and the lesson Taiwan drew from Hong Kong.
It suits readers who see the headlines about a possible war over Taiwan and want the background. Some questions turn on how the dispute is managed on paper, from the United Nations to the Olympics.
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Encyclopedia
One China Policy
The formula that there is only one China, used by Beijing and Washington to mean different things, framing the Taiwan dispute.
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Encyclopedia
Strategic Ambiguity
Strategic ambiguity is the US policy of deliberately not saying whether it would defend Taiwan militarily.
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Encyclopedia
228 Incident and the White Terror
The 228 Incident was the 1947 massacre of Taiwanese civilians by the Nationalist government, followed by 38 years of martial law called the White Terror.
