Might, Not Right: Political Legitimacy in Taiwan Before 1750

With the expansion of the world market, the Taiwanese island is the center of the South East Sea and has become the center of mainland China during the past century. Prior to the expansion of international trade from the 16th century to the 17th century, there were many indigenous peoples living in Taiwan with very different languages, and they were thought to arrive in Southeast Asia 70,000 years ago. Despite the political claim, prior to the occupation of the Netherlands in 1621, interest in the Chinese island did not fire and showed its resources and the potential benefits of its strategic location.

Politics 1450-1750 The major political-related trends from 1450 to 1750 were the three new empires of the Ottoman Empire, Safavid, and the Mughal Dynasty. Flowering But the competition between them also brought about significant political differences and military conflict. All three began with the culture of nomads in Turkey in the meadow of Central Asia and they all had absolute monarchs who formed their courts in the early Muslim dynasty court. The Ming Dynasty emperor continued to rule China until mid-17th century, but before that the dynasty had decayed for years.

At the beginning of the 17th century, Taiwan lived primarily in indigenous peoples of Taiwan, but the population structure began to change due to the constant fluctuation of Han Chinese immigrants. Taiwan was governed by the loyalty of Ming Dynasty in 1662. As the Kingdom of Dongning, it was unified by the Qing Dynasty in 1683. Following the Japanese ceremony during the military occupation in Taipei in October 1945, China became a Taiwanese rule under the rule of the KMT. In 1949, after the civil war in China, the rule of mainland China expired, before the postwar peace treaty came into force, the KMT government ceased to occupy Taiwan and became the exile government.

The Republic of China has still governed Taiwan, but after decades of martial law, it was transformed into democracy in the 1990s. Meanwhile, the legal and political status of Taiwan became controversial and the public expression of independent feelings in Taiwan has become illegal until now. Kuomintang complies with the "one Chinese principle" and claimed that the People's Republic of China will dominate the majority of the People's Republic of China according to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China (the Kuomintang administration passed in Nanjing in 1947). Even after the Chinese Communist Party expelled the People's Republic of China in the mainland in 1949 and established the People's Republic of China, the Chinese National Party government that still has Taiwan continues to insist on the legitimacy of the Chinese government.