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They want the status quo because China has officially stated they'll invade if Taiwan declares independence.
Or maybe because Taiwan is called the republic of china and a hostile government still in civil war with the PRC.
It's still in civil war because if it stops considering itself the sole legitimate government of both China and Taiwan, that'd effectively be a declaration of independence and hence provoke China.
Yeah thats called secession and there was like a government in the united states south that did the same thing.
The Chinese state was rebuilt from the ground up between the Japanese occupation of Taiwan and it's transition to democracy. It's not secession if the state you're supposedly seceding from doesn't even exist anymore.
The PRC is the internationally recognized successor of Sun Yat-sen's Republic? Which the current regime in Taiwan claims to be the direct continuation of. The state exists. So the only thing that would change is that the ROC has a name change, and stops claiming ownership of several countries' territory. Still secession.
Yes, but only if they declare independence, which their current constitution doesn't permit.