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Mainland China not the motherland, says Taiwan’s president, because our republic is older

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Lai Ching-te , who took office in May , is condemned by Beijing as a separatist.

He rejects Beijing ’s sovereignty claims, saying the island is a country called the Republic of China .

The Chinese nationalist government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong's communists.

Mao set up the People's Republic of.

China continues to claim self-governed Taiwan as its territory.

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