History of Taiwan

1. History of Taiwan 94273614 Jerry (嚴敏規)

2. Introduction Source taken from the Korean website Daum.com (http://enc.daum.net/dic100/contents.do?query1=b22t1724b) • Formal name: Republic of China • Population: 22,815,000 million • Area: 36,188㎢ • Capital City: Taipei (Taibei) • Independent date: October 25th 1945 • Official language: Chinese mandarin • Monetary Unit: New Taiwan Dollar (NT$), 圓(元,塊)

3. History(1) • 7C: aborigines lived in Taiwan • After 17 Century: Chinese people lived in Taiwan • 1590: Portuguese ships arrived in Taiwan. Called it “Ilha Formosa” • Before 1626: Netherlands and the Spanish visited the island.

4. History(2) • 1661:In the fall of the Ming Dynasty, government officials moved out to Taiwan. • 1683: Qing Dynasty held the majesty and they added Taiwan in Fujian(福建) Castle. • 1796~1842:The Manchurians lived in Taiwan in the east coast. They exported rice and sugar to China.

5. History(3) • 1875: The city of Taipei became capital city of north Taiwan. • 1885: Taiwan became part of China. • 1895: After the war between Qing Dynasty and Japan, Taiwan became first overseas settlement for Japan. • 1924: 孫文, Sun Yat-sen made the Kuomingtang party (國民黨) and the Military School (Principal General Chiang Kai-shek) in mainland China.

6. History(4) • This period was the same as Korea. • (Movie Lust, Caution(色戒))

7. History(5) • 1945: After World War II, the Kuomingtang party rule Taiwan. (Movie 悲情城市: A City of Sadness, 1989) • 1949: the Communist party won in mainland China, General Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石), the Kuomingtang and their followers move to Taiwan.

8. History(6) • 1954: Taiwan and United States of America signed ‘the mutual defense treaty’. Since then Taiwan got economic help and military assistance from United States in about 30 years. • 1971: United States and many non-communist countries signed that Taiwan is Republic of China. Later, United States president Nixon visited Mainland China, after this, many countries recognized Taiwan as Republic of China. And they cut diplomatic ties. • And now Taiwan year is 97.

9. EconomyDanbi Kim Macroeconomic Indicators Trade WTO Membership Investment Services Industry Images obtained from:Taiwan Ministry Of Finance website, Directorate-General Of Budget, Accounting and Statistics and using Yahoo’s and Google’s Image Search engines Sources taken from: Ministry of Economic Affairs. Council for Economic Planning and Development. Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics. Bureau of Foreign Trade. Industrial Development Bureau. Investment Commission. Bureau of Energy. Small and Medium Enterprise Administration. Intellectual Property Office. Executive Yuan. Mainland Affairs Council.

10. Macroeconomic Indicators In 2006, Taiwan's economy continued its steady expansion from the latter half of 2005 to record an annual growth, compared with 2005. In the second half of the year, the economy took a downturn due to weak domestic demand.

11. Macroeconomic Indicators

12. Trade (Export) Taiwan was the world's 16th-largest exporting nation in 2006, with exports valued at US$224 billion. Industrial products accounted for 99 percent of all exports, meanwhile agricultural and processed agricultural products, accounting for 1 percent of total exports, dropped 8.8 percent and 12.2 percent, respectively.

13. Trade (Export)

14. Trade (Import) The total value of Taiwan's imports in 2006 increased 11 percent to reach US$202.7 billion. Agricultural and industrial raw materials increased 15.6 percent and accounted for 75.4 percent of all imports, due mainly to increased imports of crude oil, electronic parts and components, chemical products, and "other metal products." Capital equipment accounted for 17 percent of imports, a drop of 0.5 percent on the previous year due to reduced imports of airplanes, transportation equipment, and information and communications products. Consumer goods constituted 7.6 percent of all imports, a fall of 2.3 percent over the previous year.

15. Trade (Import)

16. Trade (Major Trading Partners) In 2006, about 80 percent of Taiwan's external trade was conducted with China, Hong Kong, Japan, the United States, Japan, and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU).

17. Trade(Major Trading Partners)

18. World Trade Organization Membership Taiwan's trade has been on an upward trend since WTO accession. Despite a year of unstable oil prices in 2005, total trade still grew, rising to 12 percent for 2006. Any negative impacts on the industrial sector have been mitigated chiefly thanks to governmental deregulation, tariff reduction, and other trade liberalization measures introduced prior to accession.

19. Economic Ties with China Cumulative investment in China by Taiwan's Businesses has ballooned since restrictions were eased on cross-strait ties in 1991. In 2006, there were 1,090 cases of approved investment in China

20. Taiwan’s Industry Information Technology Flat-panel Displays (FPD) Communications Vehicles

21. Culture Music Festival

22. Music(Popular Music) Taiwan's liberal environment is conducive to the development of popular music. Today, Taiwan remains a leader in the pop music industry of the Mandarin-speaking world, and is widely seen as the land of opportunities for many aspiring East Asian artists.

23. Music(Popular Music) Examples of major stars and bands include Jay Chou, Lou Zhi xiang, Amei (a female artist of indigenous Pinuyumayan origin), rock star Wu Bai, and gothic metal band Chthonic.

24. Music(Beiguan and Nanguan ) Recently, there has been a renewed interest in preserving the original qualities of beiguan, a traditional Chinese, fast-tempo musical and operatic form, and the gentler nanguan style.

25. The Emperor's tour ceremony

26. The "Eight Generals" parade adds to festivities

27. A traditional Tao boat-launching ceremony

28. Dragon Boat Festival

29. Ghost Festival

30. Current Political Situation of Taiwan Ernesto Garcia T 95302255 ICMC3

31. Government Taiwan Sources taken from the Wikipedia, CIA World Factbook and images obtained using Google’s Image Search engine • Government type: • Multiparty democracy • Constitution:25 December 1947; amended in 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2005 note: constitution adopted on 25 December 1946; went into effect on 25 December 1947

32. Government Taiwan (2) • Legal system • Based on civil law system; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction • Suffrage: 20 years of age; universal

33. Executive branch • Chief of state: President MA Ying-jeou (since 20 May 2008); Vice President Vincent SIEW (since 20 May 2008)

34. Executive branch (2) • Head of government: Premier (President of the Executive Yuan) LIO Chao-shiuan (since 20 May 2008); Vice Premier (Vice President of Executive Yuan) Paul CHIU (CHANG-hsiung) (since 20 May 2008)

35. Executive branch (3) • Cabinet: Executive Yuan - (ministers appointed by president on recommendation of premier) • Elections: president and vice president elected on the same ticket by popular vote for four-year terms (eligible for a second term); election last held 22 March 2008 (next to be held in March 2012); premier appointed by the president; vice premiers appointed by the president on the recommendation of the premier

36. Legislative branch • Unicameral Legislative Yuan (113 seats - 73 district members elected by popular vote, 34 at-large members elected on basis of proportion of island wide votes received by participating political parties, 6 elected by popular vote among aboriginal populations; to serve four-year terms)

37. Judicial branch • Judicial Yuan (justices appointed by the president with consent of the Legislative Yuan)

38. Political parties and leaders • Democratic Progressive Party or DPP [TSAI Ing-wen]; Kuomintang or KMT (Nationalist Party) [WU Po-hsiung]; Non-Partisan Solidarity Union or NPSU [CHANG Po-ya]; People First Party or PFP [James SOONG]

39. Political status of Taiwan • The controversy regarding the political status of Taiwan hinges on whether Taiwan, including the Pescadores (Penghu), should remain effectively independent as territory of the Republic of China (ROC), become unified with the territories now governed by the People's Republic of China (PRC), or formally declare independence and become the Republic of Taiwan. The controversy over the political status of the Republic of China hinges on whether its existence as a state is legitimate and recognized.

40. Political status of Taiwan(2) • Currently, Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and some other minor islands effectively make up the jurisdiction of the state known as the Republic of China. The ROC ruled mainland China, and claimed sovereignty over Outer Mongolia and Tannu Uriankhai (part of which is present day Tuva) before losing the Chinese Civil War and relocating its government to Taipei in December 1949.

41. Political status of Taiwan(3) • Since the ROC lost its United Nations seat in 1971 (replaced by the PRC), most sovereign states have switched their diplomatic recognition to the PRC, recognizing or acknowledging the PRC to be the sole legitimate representative of all China. As of January 2008, the ROC maintains official diplomatic relations with 23 sovereign states,[1] although de facto relations are maintained with nearly all others. Agencies such as the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office and American Institute in Taiwan operate as de facto embassies without official diplomatic status.

42. Political status of Taiwan(4) • In addition, the situation can be confusing because of the different parties and the effort by many groups to deal with the controversy through a policy of deliberate ambiguity. The political solution that is accepted by many of the current groups is the following perspective of the status quo: that is, to unofficially treat Taiwan as a state and at a minimum, to officially declare no support for the government of this state making a formal declaration of independence. What a formal declaration of independence would consist of is not clear and can be confusing given the fact that the People's Republic of China has never controlled Taiwan since its founding and the fact that the Republic of China, whose government controls Taiwan, considers itself a de jure sovereign state. The status quo is accepted in large part because it does not define the legal status or future status of Taiwan, leaving each group to interpret the situation in a way that is politically acceptable to its members. At the same time, a policy of status quo has been criticized as being dangerous precisely because different sides have different interpretations of what the status quo is, leading to the possibility of war through brinkmanship or miscalculation.