Name: 人們對臺灣的十大誤解 (10 Things People Get WRONG About TAIWAN)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:41:32.000Z
Duration: 10 min 34 s

在本集《中國解密》的影片中，

我們將探討外國人誤會台灣的 10 件事。

the capital of a country that most countries

但大部分的國家不承認這裡是一個國家。

因為 ... 嗯 ... 這說起來很複雜。

And "complicated" is why so many people get things about it wrong.

也就是因為複雜，所以很多外國人都誤會台灣了。

Here are 10 common misconceptions people have about Taiwan.

這裡有人們對台灣的 10 個常見的誤解。

大部分人稱這個地方為「台灣」，

But its official name is the Republic of China.

但真正的官方稱呼為「中華民國」。

That's different from the People's Republic of China.

這和「中華人民共和國」不一樣。

Taiwan is technically the name of a land mass, not a country.

專業地說「台灣」是土地的名稱，而不是國家。

this big one that's shaped like a sweet potato.

But the Republic of China government actually has domain

但中華民國政府實際上擁有的領土，

Most of them are really small and no one lives there.

大部分的島嶼都很小，也沒有人居住。

But for simplicity, most people still call the country "Taiwan".

但為了簡單，大部分人都稱這個國家為「台灣」。

And honestly, that's less confusing than calling it the Republic of China.

老實說，這比稱「中華民國」來得較不會讓人疑惑。

It's a bit like calling The Netherlands "Holland".

And that's what I'm going to mostly use in this episode for simplicity.

為了簡單辨認，我將在這部影片中使用「台灣」。

Personally, I think we should go back to calling Taiwan

我個人覺得我們應該稱台灣為，

Taiwan wants to declare independence from China.

Any way you measure it, Taiwan is a sovereign state.

無論你用哪種方式評估，台灣是一個主權國家。

Taiwan has its own government, passports,

this one, claims Taiwan is just a province of China,

even though that is objectively not true.

But the People's Republic of China has said

it would invade Taiwan if it "declares" independence.

如果台灣宣告獨立，他們就會攻打台灣。

The current Taiwan government's position is that

they already "are" an independent country,

so there's no need to "declare independence".

世界上大部分的國家包含美國，

which most of the world, including the US agrees with.

The common explanation for the One China Policy

is that both the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China

claim to be the legitimate ruler of both Chinas,

都宣稱自己是中國的合法統治者。

but they just disagree about which of them is that legitimate ruler.

但他們只是不同意哪一個才是合法統治者。

This is sometimes referred to as the 1992 consensus.

這有時被稱為是「九二共識」。

But people also disagree about what the 1992 consensus is

但人們也不同意九二共識是什麼，

So what are the different One China policies?

The People's Republic of China has what it calls the One China Principle,

中華人民共和國的「一中原則」，

which is that there is only one legitimate China,

and the People's Republic of China is it.

And that Taiwan is a province of the PRC.

而台灣是中華人民共和國的其中一省。

But their One China Principle doesn't recognize that Taiwan

但他們的一中原則並不承認台灣，

or other countries might have a different view.

或其他國家可能有不同的觀點。

except saying that "they" were the single legitimate China.

除了說「他們」是唯一合法的中國以外。

And more and more people in Taiwan don't view themselves as Chinese.

但越來越多台灣人不認為自己是中國人。

They have their own identity as Taiwanese,

that one day they'll retake the mainland.

有一天他們會重新佔領中國大陸。

And sometimes those media reports will say that America

會說美國同意中華人民共和國的一中政策。

The US does have its own One China Policy.

It comes from the 1972 Shanghai Communiqué, which says, essentially,

that the US acknowledges that China and Taiwan

both view themselves as the legitimate China.

美國承認中國和台灣都將自己視為合法的中國。

It also doesn't explicitly state the sovereign status of Taiwan.

也沒有明確聲明台灣的主權地位。

Diplomacy: the art of making things so confusing

外交：是一門使事情變得很混亂的藝術，

that everyone stops trying to figure them out.

以至於大家都不再試著釐清事實。

不，那是純粹共產主義的宣傳。

At no point in history was the island of Taiwan

a province of the People's Republic of China.

台灣從未是中華人民共和國的一個省。

In fact, there were only two brief points in history--

實際上，歷史上只有兩個觀點 --

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