For the first time in 22 years, two German warships will sail through the Taiwan Strait, a move likely to provoke Beijing. Germany joins other Western nations in asserting freedom of navigation in the region amid China’s territorial claims over Taiwan
But doesn’t Taiwan consider itself the real and “royal” China? That’s what I’ve always been told. Or have they dropped that claim?
They don’t have any plans to enforce it violently though, while China is planning for a “cross-strait unification” (basically just invading Taiwan).