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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, meaning subtly different things to Beijing and Washington, that frames the entire Taiwan dispute.
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Encyclopedia
Strategic Ambiguity
America's deliberate refusal to say whether it would defend Taiwan, designed to deter an invasion from Beijing and a declaration of independence from Taipei at once.
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Encyclopedia
228 Incident and the White Terror
The 1947 massacre and the 38 years of martial law that followed, in which the Nationalists destroyed Taiwan's elite and made an island of silence.
