If you had some older taiwanese people on this board, you'd get quite a reaction about its ties to china today. How i've heard it is like this. Taiwan was it's own place. Chinese people came over to taiwan and then started taking over the place. 15% of the population was supposedly Chinese, and 85% of the population was taiwanese. These Chinese took high offices and started to discriminate on the Taiwanese. The taiwanese would be in trouble if they spoke taiwanese at school. They HAD to speak mandarin. If you didn't join the chinese you would often lose your job, clientell, etc. That is why you get people who lived in taiwan for 20 years and dont speak taiwanese.
But that is one side of the story, i probably left some stuff out.. .but hey im not chinese nor taiwanese, so yeah