Nationalist China

noun

1. an unofficial name for (the Republic of) China

Nationalist China

¹

1. The Republic of China ; the government on the island of Taiwan . Established by Chiang Kai-shek in the late 1940s after he and his followers were driven from the mainland by the communists under Mao Zedong . Until 1979, the United States treated the Nationalist Chinese government as the legitimate government of all of China . Nationalist China and the United States still have unofficial diplomatic relations.

Nationalist China

²

1. After the conquest of mainland China by communists led by Mao Zedong in 1949, Nationalist (anticommunist) leader Chiang Kai-shek led the remnants of his army to the island of Taiwan , where he established a government called Nationalist China, which the United States long recognized as the only legitimate government for all of China.