“China and Taiwan”
SIR - I must object to your article’s assertion that Taiwan was ever part of the People’s Republic of China (you talk of Taiwan having “run its affairs for half a century” and of China threatening to “retake” the island by force). Historically, Taiwan has never been a province of the People’s Republic. The only time that Taiwan has ever been ruled by a Beijing government was during the Ching dynasty, for a scant eight years before 1895. Even then, the government barely had control over parts of the island.
