✔ 最佳答案
John offered a pretty good summary. I'll add:
The Chinese Civil War has never officially come to an end.; no peace accord or treaty has ever been signed. The shooting has stopped, but the spitting continues.
The ROC government on Taiwan are basically armed refugees from the Mainland who brought 2 million people to the island and took Taiwan by force against the wishes of the people here. However, the ROC has made substantial progress over the past 2 decades in the form of democracy, civil rights, and environmental protection.
The PRC government on the Mainland makes the audacious claim that THEY own Taiwan and its people, even though, by all standards of accepted international law, they have no legal grounds for claiming it. They use blackmail, bribery, and threats to force other countries to sever ties with the ROC government and agree with the PRC's position in order to avoid inciting China's anger.
Taiwanese see Mainlanders as "brainwashed militant bullies", because they behave that way.
Mainlanders see Taiwanese as "renegade traitors to the Motherland", which is about the same as saying "a zebra is a renegade water buffalo".
Not much room for peaceful dialogue to develop under those difficult conditions.
So, the two governments continue playing their poker game, each expecting to walk home with all the chips. Meanwhile, the gentle people of both countries are wondering why their politicians are such idiots.