China Has little Legal Claim to Taiwan

Recommendable! No legal claim is certainly an exaggeration!

".. First, the Chinese Communist Party recognized even before World War II that Taiwan was not part of China. Even Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, acknowledged in a 1936 interview with hagiographer Edgar Snow that Taiwan was no more part of China than Korea was. ...

Japan took and occupied Taiwan in 1894, and the Qing dynasty formalized that arrangement in the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki that ended the Sino-Japanese War. This gave Japan legal title to the island and extinguished China’s imperial title, which had notably been obtained for the first time only two centuries earlier. Japan proceeded to rule Taiwan for the next half century, with full legal authority, until the Allies defeated Japan in World War II.

In 1952, three years after Chiang Kai-Shek’s government fled from Mao’s forces to Taiwan, the San Francisco Peace Treaty between the Allies and Japan entered into force. The Treaty recognized the United States as “the principal occupying Power” on the island. While Beijing points out that it is not a signatory to the Treaty ..."

China Has No Legal Claim to Taiwan | The National Interest The simple fact is that China has no more legal right to Taiwan than it has to Korea.