Comment by nosuchthing
5 hours ago
Have you ever actually looked into the history of the Taiwan and why they would officially call their region the Republic of China?
Apparently they had a civil war not too long ago. Internationally lots of territories were absorbed in weird ways in the last 100 years, amid post European colonialism and post WWII divvy up of territories among the allies. It sounds more similar to the way southerners like to print dixie flags and reference the confederate states, despite losing the civil war except the American Civil War ended 161 years ago, whereas the ROC fled to the island of Taiwan and were left alone, still claiming to be the national party of China despite losing their civil war 77 years ago.
Why not look into the actual history of the Republic of China? has it be suppressed where you live?
Not sure I follow how you arrived at the conclusion that parent doesn't know the origin of the CCPs distaste of Taiwan.