My Name's Taiwan:咱ㄟ名是台灣

We're Already Independent, Stupid! 笨蛋 -我們早就獨立了!
I thought I should clarify some terminology here. Although most people know about the movement to create a Taiwanese state as "the independence movement", Taiwan is in fact already an independent and sovereign territory. Taiwan does not need to become independent from the People's Republic of China (PRC), because it has never actually been part of the PRC. Therefore its not even a "secession" or "splittist" movement as they coin it in PRC - just like it would be absurd to get a divorce without even getting married at the first place. But generically, Taiwanese Independence is still widely known as the movement to establish a Taiwanese state free from any Chinese ties, whether it be the Repulic Of China (ROC) or the PRC.

Taiwan, unlike Tibet or Hong Kong or Macau, has every prerequisite of an independent nation. First of all, constitutional sovereignty over its territory (Taiwan main Island and its outlying Islands of Penghu, Jinmen & Matzu etc), a defence force which guards the security of the territory and its 23 million citizens, a governance structure based on democratic elections, a judiciary system to protect human rights, formal foreign diplomatic relationships, separate economy& currency etc etc. All of this is completely independent from and operational without the PRC's Beijing government.

Rectify Our Name 台灣正名
What the Taiwanese people are working on at the moment is asserting Taiwan's formal statehood by RECTIFYING Taiwan's name from ROC to Taiwan. The Kuomingtang (KMT) led ROC government has been occupying Taiwan since 1945 - and Taiwan has been forced to use ROC as a name, which has created a number of difficulties for Taiwan internationally (eg. UN & bilateral diplomatic relationships), because it implies that Taiwan wants to represent China or is a part of China, or that there are "two Chinas". No wonder China (PRC)'s pissed off!!

Therefore to get rid of these array of confusions as well as the PRC's misleading claim over the Taiwan's territory, we need to change our state's name formerly to Taiwan, from a "Chinese state" to a Taiwanese state. Simple as that.