it used to be like this, but chiang kai shek was very much chinese, rejected independence and arrested all ethnic minorities who suggested as such. modern taiwan is trying to adopt japanese culture, language and habits and try to portray themselves to be part of the imperial japanese core island territory. young people especially get scholarships for studying in japan, taiwan's metro has chinese and japanese announcements and weeabooism is extreme on taiwan.  kind of saddens me, who was told that on taiwan you can see "real china before communism" but ended up with someone larping as japan.
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