Is Macao a part of China or a country?
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It's a city in China, therefore it is a part of China. I think it use to be a portuguese colony but it has been handed over to china.
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Hong Kong is a region composed of many small islands and a peninsula.  So I suppose the short answer to your question is, "a lot."\n\nNote that people sometimes refer to the island of Hong Kong when they say "Hong Kong," rather than the whole region.  I suggest looking at the linked map.
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Taiwan is not an independent country (at least not yet).  It is part of China but it's location is not in mainland China. Just because it is not in the mainland, it doesn't mean it is independent. Even though Taiwan is part of China,they have different government. This is what happens in Hong Kong now.  Hong Kong went back to China in 1997 but Hong Kong has its own government and not under to one from mainland China.  This situation is called one country, two ruling system.
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You mispelled the question...\n\nHu is Chinas President/Ambasador?" \n\n...and the answer is...\n\nYes he is.
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Define "country".\n\nBy most accounts the answer is 193 - 192 members of the UN, plus  the Vatican.\n\nThen there's stuff like Taiwan, which is de facto independent but doesn't have much of international recognition. There are places like Palestine, which are recognized by some countries but not by all. There are places like South Ossetia, which is pressing for independence from Georgia, which voted for independence, but which isn't having international recognition. There are places like the Western Sahara, which doesn't have a government so much as a war. There are places like Tibet, which by right ought to be independent but was pwnzored by China and hasn't done that much to regain independence. There are places like Sealand, which is a small pier off the coast of Britain that claims independence and runs an essentially law-free and therefore lawsuit-free Internet hosting service.\n\nAnd so forth. If you count the number of named entities which consider themselves independent, it's well over 200. But that's not what most people consider a "country".
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tibet, but I guess it is now just a province of china, then being a country
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There are 193 countries in the world today. \n\nUnless you don't count Taiwan.\n\nTaiwan is not considered an official country by many, which would bring the count down to 192 countries. Although Taiwan operates as an independent country, many countries (including the U.S.) do not officially recognize it as one. Because the People's Republic of China considers Taiwan a breakaway province of China, countries who wish to maintain diplomatic relations with China have had to sever their formal relations with Taiwan (more than 100 countries, however, have unofficial relations with Taiwan).
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There are lots of countries in Asia.\n\nJapan-Junichiro Koizumi\nS. Korea-Roh Moo Hun
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blorgo's posting made some good points, but I want to add a few things. \n\nFirst, it's going much too far to state the Taiwan is in any way "subordinate" to China. For one thing, there are still 20 or so nations that recognize the ROC and not the PRC. Only in the offical dis-information of PRC mythology does China control or administer anything having to do with Taiwan. In reality, Taiwan operates as a completely separate and sovereign nation, with all that that implies. The only real, concrete effect of China's insistence that "Taiwan is a part of China" is caused by the incredible economic and diplomatic resources devoted by China to try to restrict Taiwan's international and diplomatic "space", and China's spreading of misleading dis-information to the world and especially to its own citizens on the real issues involved. For example, all countries have an embassy in Taipei, only most of them can't CALL it an embassy. They have to call them "trade and culture offices".  \n\nDoes China have some sacred "right" to control every region where people speak Chinese and even identify themselves as ethically-Chinese? If so, then England can take "back" the USA, Canada, Austailia and New Zealand. Spain has a right to attack Mexico, Cuba, Texas, etc. Or?  \n\nThe Peoples Republic of China (PRC) has never at any time controlled Taiwan in any way or form. \n\nDuring the last decades of the last (Qing) imperial dynasty, the power of the central government was finally extended far enough to bring some degree of administrative control to some areas of Taiwan. That regime, however, was NOT the present PRC government, but rather the old, feudal regime that was overthrown in the 1911 revolution --a decade before the formation of the Chinese Communist party.\n\nSo, Taiwan may be said to have "belonged" in the past to the previous imperial Chinese regime, but to say that Taiwan today belongs to the PRC would be like saying Chechnya, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Lithuania and other (presently) independent nations "belong" to Russia, because the previous imperial Russian regime had at one time extended its control to those regions several generations ago.\n\nThe two major parties in the legislature are the DPP and the KMT. The KMT is the party of the late dictator Chiang Kai-Shek. They are trying to keep China happy, hoping it will give them advantages in the event that China gains control of Taiwan in the future. The DPP is by far the more patriotic and democratic of the two parties, and promotes the development of a Taiwan-centered national consciousness.\n\nTaiwan is now one of the most open societies in the world, and certainly in Asia. High standards of education, multi-party democracy, free press, freedom to protest. Taiwanese of all political stripes enjoy protesting. I have attended quite a few very large street demonstrations in the last few years. Some of them are celebratory and some of them are the rowdy and angry kind, but all are peaceful and no one gets hurt. The police are there, not to hinder the demonstrations but only in case a fight breaks out, just as in Europe or USA.\n\nIs it this kind of freedom that PRC leaders are afraid might spread to China?
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China is a sovereign nation..they can have any laws they like..and Yahoo has to follow them...\n\nIt is not like Yahoo is trying to clamp down on revolution....\n\nThe problem is the Chinese government..NOT any individual company....
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China is an ILliberal capitalist country.  They are communist in name only, probably because they'd find it too embarrassing to admit that they've totally abandoned communism and did so years ago.  But they did nto abandon their autocratic control-freak government.
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Over the years I have read many accounts where people state that the "Republic of China on Taiwan" is a government in exile.  I have yet to see the definitive explanation of why that is the truth, but I am very much interested in all related details. \n\nFor this Yahoo question, I did a Google Blogsearch using the keywords of "Taiwan US territory"  and then I looked at the Comments posted by visitors to the websites.  The site of http://www.taiwankey.net/dc/tforumtw.htm is mentioned in several Blogs, and indeed that site has full information on this new lawsuit.  There are numerous links to background information (including US Supreme Court decisions regarding "overseas territories") which have relevance to the Taiwan status question as well.  \n\nA link to the court documents (16 pages in PDF format) is also there.\n\nSo .... it appears that the truth is out, and this truth has finally reached the US federal court system -- Taiwan is an overseas territory of the USA.
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Central America and South Asia aren't countries (but the countries in those regions are developing).  China would be considered a developing country (China's tough because part of it is advanced and part of it still seems stone-age).  Israel's certainly NOT a developing country.  I'd go with the countries in central and south America and south Asia while staying away from the ones you've heard of before (China, India, Pakistan -- hard to call a nuclear power a developing country) and staying away from the countries in Africa.
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Yes, the Middle East is part of Asia, however differences is geography and culture, as well as natural barriers have brought historians as well as the general public to view the Middle East as a separate entity.
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that was a question when i was playing trivial pursuit the other day.... the answer was China, beleive it or not.
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Are you located in China?
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Yeah, it's a country in central asia. Used to be in the soviet union.