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In 1979, the United States Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act, a law generally interpreted as mandating U.S. defense of Taiwan in the event of an attack from the Chinese Mainland (the Act is applied to Taiwan and Penghu, but not to Kinmen or Matsu, which are usually considered to be part of mainland China). The United States maintains the ...
The United States severed official ties with Taipei in 1979 but is bound by law to provide the island with the means to defend itself. The United States officially takes no position on Taiwan's ...
The other five de facto states have not been recognized by Taiwan diplomatically. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta is a non-territorial sovereign entity; it claims and controls no territory, it does not consider itself to be a state, and yet it considers itself to be sovereign. [87]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. UN member states that at least one other UN member state does not recognise Non-UN member states recognised by at least one UN member state Non-UN member states recognised only by other non-UN member states or not recognized by any other state A number of polities have declared independence and ...
The government of the PRC has officially maintained the position of peaceful unification of Taiwan but does not rule out using military force, if necessary, to "reunify" the island should formal independence be declared. As for the ROC (Taiwan), such a move could also be considered a violation of its current constitution. The process for a ...
In 2016, Taiwan had formal ties with 22 states, but as Chinese pressure builds up, the country is only left with 13 allies with Honduras being the latest to break off ties.
Germany has treated the People's Republic (PRC) as the sole representative of China, "of which Taiwan is a part" but also considers Taiwan a "partner of common values." Its relations with Taiwan no longer operate at a level that would imply official diplomatic recognition.
The evolving revolutionary movement in the Philippines declares itself independent from the Spanish Empire. [20] [19] [21] Spain regarded this as an expression of continued rebellion. [note 8] This difference in viewpoints was not resolved. 2012 [22] [23] In 2012, the United Nations approved a 2009 claim by the Philippines to the Benham Rise. [23]