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  • It’s literally never been a country in its entire history.

    This is factually wrong. There has been a native population with their own governance for most of its history.

    There have been some smaller trading outposts from the mainland Chinese over the course of history, but the Portuguese and Dutch traders actually had more influence on the island than those Chinese traders who carefully avoided conflict with the native population.

    The claim over the island by the Chinese empire ever only existed on paper until a brief period in the late 19th/early 20th century when they tried to brutally colonize the island only to be shortly after overrun by the Japanese who happily took over the colony.