[gruez]

>Depends on who you ask.

I mean, you can make the same argument with "the earth is flat... depends on who you ask". At least when it comes to the Taiwan (the island) I don't think there's any doubt that the ROC government has a monopoly on violence there. They also have their own military, police force, and collect their own taxes, independent of the PRC.

[ClumsyPilot]

Best I can recall, it was formed by Nationalists, partly Nazy government that had to flee after like a third Communist uprising when they relised there were more revolting peasants than they had bullets.

Obvious a lot of time has passed, but it's not quite flat earth. It just requires a sence of 'historical justice', however unhelpfull