Taiwan's history is uniquely complex. Forget Northern Ireland, forget the Great Game, this is the 21st century's Schleswig-Holstein Question.
This blog is a Politics-Free Zone, but I can't ignore today, officially 100 years since the fall of the Qing Dynasty. It's Taiwan's National Day. For various reasons (but this is a PFZ...) it's an ambiguous event in the official PRC calendar. It's also ambiguous for Taiwanese families who were already on the island before 1949, when the big influx of Nationalists arrived after the end of the Chinese civil war. But, this is a PFZ...
It would be complicated enough even without the Americans, but history has added them to the mix too. If Sir Harry Flashman was alive today, he'd be in Taiwan (perhaps with a weather girl in tow).
Update: Anyone interested in this might want to read this fairly even-handed piece from the BBC's correspondent http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15218596:
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