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human
What is preventing Taiwan from becoming its own country? As of right now is it considered to be part of China?
gpt
After World War 2, a communist revolution occurred in China and the previous ruling government in China escaped to Taiwan. At the time, the Chinese revolutionaries were incapable of assaulting Taiwan and the United States continued to recognize this government as the legitimate government of all of China, but this didn't stop the revolutionaries from declaring victory and laid claim to all lands owned by the ousted government, including Taiwan.

These circumstances didn't change much for a while, but eventually the US decided that they needed to move on and aknowledge the new Chinese government officially, but they would have no contact with the US unless they aknowledged China's full borders, including Taiwan. The US agreed as long as the Chinese didn't make too much of a fuss over the US defensive support of Taiwan from military invasion and independent trade with Taiwan.

We are left with the result where everybody officially recognizes that Taiwan is part of China, but everybody trades with Taiwan as an independent country and the US militarily protects Taiwan from China.