[lupire]

The USA invaded and annexed lots of free countries.

Invading and annexing isn't some weird thing no one usually does.

Taiwan is the product of a recent civil war.

[srbloom]

Would you have argued that the American civil war was recent in 1940?

[hmm37]

The Chinese civil war never officially ended. There was no agreement whatsoever, and the ROC never declared itself as separate, etc. Taiwan is simply a province within the ROC, and the ROC still consists of the mainland. That's what the ROC constitution states.