No Taiwan was never part of China.
https://fapa.org/taiwans-history-and-status-taiwan-has-never-been-a-part-of-china/

On Thursday, November 20, 2025, Duane Filan via groups.io <duanefilan44=
[email protected]> wrote:

> Avram - "Maybe read leftists Taiwan is not part of China"
>
> I  read what Avram suggested, and, in spite of the spin by the  Taiwan
> comrades,  it appears to  support what I said - that when Japan invaded
> China, Taiwan had already been Chinese territory for  centuries:
>
> "Chinese and Japanese pirates would seek shelter among the marshes and
> inlets of the southwestern Taiwanese coast.
>
> Ming rulers [1368-1644] were never able to defeat the pirates, but in the
> 17th century they decided to make common cause with them against their
> enemy, the Dutch settlers in South Taiwan. The Ming Court approached Cheng
> Chihlung who it appointed  admiral of the imperial fleet with
> responsibility to stamp out the "others".
>
> His son Koxinga, became increasingly important as the Manchus [Qing
> dynasty 1645-1912] captured first Beijing, then Banging, and, in 1646
> Fuzhou. Both the remaining Ming and Qing courted Koxinga who maintained his
> fleet and ruled over an enclave along the southern China coast...
>
> In 1661 he laid seige to Fort Zeelandia, the Dutch trading center on the
> southwest coast.  On February 1, 1662 the Dutch surrendered, retreating to
> Batavia  (present day Jakarta, Indonesia)... But it was not until 1683 that
> the Kangxi Emperor, the Qing dynasty's third, forced Taiwan into submission
> and incorporated it as a prefecture of the Fujian province, with an 8,000
> man garrison of Qing soldiers."
>
> The RCIT is pushing a dumb idea - "For a socialist Taiwan as part of a
> federation of workers states in the region!"
> Why not just call for "Global socialist revolution soon!"??
> 
>
>


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