>Taiwan is essentially all that is left of the real old china.
The same old China that got their asses kicked by western imperial powers and became a defacto colony of them? I'm sure both the Qing Dynasty and the later KMT led by Sun Yat-Sen and even Chiang Kai-Shek would have given everything they got to be see current day China, with nukes, a strong military and about to become the world's 1st superpower.