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Can there ever really be “one China?”
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A video essay exploring Taiwan's evolving national identity through the history of its passport design, tracing how the Republic of China removed and later added the word 'Taiwan' against the backdrop of major geopolitical shifts including the PRC's UN seat and US-China diplomatic relations.
Can there ever really be “one China?”
For decades, Taiwan’s passport didn’t say “Taiwan” at all. It said something else: the Republic of China. But if Taiwan has called itself China, who gets to be the “real” China?
This video traces the evolution of Taiwan’s identity through one simple object: its passport. From the booting of the Republic of China from the United Nations, to President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to Communist China in 1972, to the 2003 addition of the word “Taiwan” to the Republic of China passport, the story of
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