Comment by mytailorisrich

Plenty of territories have their own TLDs. Many islands that are integral parts of countries have their own TLD (e.g. Reunion Island in France along with most French overseas territories).

There is an 'hk' TLD and an 'mo' (macau) TLD and they don't seem to be going anywhere for the time being.

The claim that 'tw' would be removed is just unfounded conjecture or FUD in my view.