China and Taiwan issue always grabs a international topic . we will see the difference between People Republic of China(PRC) and Republic China, Confliction between communism and democracy. why Mao Zedong and Chang Kai Skek become enemy to each other after the death of Sun-Yat-Sen. We will see, what is the relation between Manchuria and Japan.
Qing Dynasty:
The story starts post period of 18th century , in the decade of 1870-80 China was ruled by the Qing Dynasty. At that time, the Qing Dynasty was weak, taking advantage of this, Japan attacked China in 1894 and captured a part of China and also captured China’s coastal areas and Taiwan. This incident is known as the first Sino-Japan war. After this incident Qing dynasty disintegrated into smaller dynasties.
Kuomintang retreat to Taiwan:
The King ,Sun-Yat-Sen, wanted to reintegrate all the smaller dynasties into one as a country. he founded a party named Kuomintang Part (today- republican party). the only dream of this party was to unite all the dynasties into one and they succeeded so far but couldn’t sustain it because Sen was died in 1925.
After death of king there was havoc created in Kuomintang party and because of confliction between the members the party was broke into two parties.
NATIONALIST PARTY | COMMUNIST PARTY |
Lead by Chang Kai Skek | Lead by Mao Zedong. |
this party wanted provide all the rights to the people of China. | This party wanted that all the rights should have government. |
People will decide the government. | A particular party will decide that who will rule in China. |
Aimed to make the China as Democratic country. | Aimed to China will be as Dictatorship country. |
Dream of civilized society | As a cruel and tyranny state |
Shanghai Massacre and 2nd Sino-Japan war:
12th April in 1927, Nationalist party stroke on Communist party in Shanghai and killed 12000 thousand people and communist party was defeated. this incident is called as Shanghai Massacre. After this incident it took the form of civil war and it lasted from 1927 to 1950 until the end of one party.
by Taking advantage of this opportunity, Japan again attacked China in 1931 and captured its region Manchuria. Seeing this, both the parties united and together they attacked Japan, but even in this war both they could not defeat and Japan again overpowered China. This war was called the second Sino-Japan war and it lasted from 1937 to 1945. The main reason for the end of this war was America’s attack on Japan with atomic bombs which suffocated Japan. so, Japan had to leave China.
Origin of Taiwan Country:
After the exile of Japan from China, Communist party got chance to take revenge from Nationalist party. they took help from Russia ( state of Communist party) and attacked on Nationalist party in 1949 and revised the incident like Shanghai Massacre. In 1949 they declared the China as Communist party officially. So, the members of Nationalist party and its leaders, devotee were exiled from China and sent to the Formosa Island (currently known Taiwan country ). Around 2M people left China and went to this island with their amenities and needy things like factory, company, animals, etc.
Foundation of RP and PRC:
Nationalist party declared the Taiwan as Republican party where Communist party declared the Red China as People of Republican party. Now both country fight each other by stating that Taiwan says China is a party of them and China says Taiwan is part of them. UNO did not recognize independence China as country Declared It is a part of Taiwan but after 1971 when Jawahar Lal Nehru helped China then UNO recognized China as Independence country and declared Taiwan is a part of China. Currently both countries are independence.
Conclusion:
Initially the conflictions between both party was a Ideological but as time passed it changed into imperialism, technology, international aspects. China carries the law of one China policy where Taiwan wants to remain independence. If you want to read about India and Kashmir issue then you can go for it.