TAIWAN FEATURE
March 1st, 2004
BY EDWARD PETERSDEPENDING on who you ask, Taiwan is either a renegade province or to all intents and purposes an independent nation, albeit one that currently lacks full international recognition. To suggest that it could be a fully functioning country in its own right to anyone in Beijing - the capital of the People's Republic of China (PRC) - is tantamount to treason. But to imply that the island once known as Formosa should in fact kowtow to its mainland neighbour provokes a similar reaction in Taipei.However you categorise Taiwan, the island is still a ...
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