Formosa (Taiwan)

[rayktkan]

I am not sure if this question is political sensitive

Can Chinese army land on formosa given it is a chinese territory pre 1949. However, Chinese army cannot ride on transpot…

Or you guy stick it as non-chinese territories?

[Imperious Leader]

It is not Chinese. It belongs to Japan and its been part of Japan since 1895. They won it fair and square in war.

Its about as Chinese as Danzig or Prussia is German after 1945.

[Krieghund]

Yup, it’s considered Japanese territory.  Chinese units can’t go there.

[shohoku201]

Exactly right.  China didn’t fully control Formosa until 1887, when the Manchu Imperial authorities decided to declare Taiwan to be part of their Empire.  The intention was to outmaneuver the Japanese, who were expanding their influence to the South.  In 1895 the Japanese defeated the Manchu’s in the Sino-Japanese War, and in the Treaty of Shimonoseki, China ceded Taiwan to Japan in perpetuity (not 99 years, like Hong Kong’s New Territories, but in perpetuity, i.e. forever). The Taiwanese didn’t like this idea, and actually declared the formation of the first independent republic in Asia. However, the movement was short-lived: Japanese imperial troops crushed the movement within several months.