AHC: Have Taiwan become a "rogue state"

With a POD after Taiwan was expelled from the United Nations, have the "Republic of China"/Taiwan be considered a rogue state (essentially a right-wing version of North Korea) which often threatens it's neighbors with war and has shitty living standards. Bonus points if you get an insane "Chiang dynasty" in charge of this NK-esque Taiwan as well or have the Taiwanese government develop nuclear weapons.
 
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There were certain rogue-like behaviors during Taiwan's authoritarian era. For instance, the ROC used to award and decorate plane hijackers from Mainland China, who hijacked not military planes but civilian airliners. The initial incident in 1983, when the perpetrators were awarded with as much as 1000 taels of gold per person, incentivized a wave of "freedom-loving" Mainlanders to hijack civilian planes and fly them to Taiwan. One of such hijacking incident resulted in a plane crash that killed 128 innocent people, including 30 Taiwanese tourists.

The ROC military was also responsible for incidents such as massacring 20 Vietnamese refugees in 1987, including pregnant women and babies, and suffocating 25 Mainland Chinese fisherman in 1990.

These might not have been extraordinary for states in that region during that era, but certainly counts as rogue behavior, on par with "typical" rogue states such as Libya and North Korea.

Fortunately, such policies gradually stopped after democratization in Taiwan. A delayed democratization would certainly prolong them.

As for the shitty living standard part, with such a late PoD, it wasn't easy to derail a developmental state which has completed its take-off stage. Probably severe internal turmoil and/or irrational investments in high-tech weapons' programs would do.
 
What about the possibility of Taiwan developing nuclear weapons or backing right-wing terrorist groups around Asia?
 
I don't think Taiwan could actually survive as a rogue state. The PRC would just crush them and nobody would complain.
 
I don't think Taiwan could actually survive as a rogue state. The PRC would just crush them and nobody would complain.
The ROC was horrible enough post-CCW. Furthermore, as other posters have stated, they indeed exhibited behaviors of rogue states. The USA backed them up throughout all of it, until Nixon. If the PRC attempted to retake Taiwan, the USA would interfere.
 
The ROC was horrible enough post-CCW. Furthermore, as other posters have stated, they indeed exhibited behaviors of rogue states. The USA backed them up throughout all of it, until Nixon. If the PRC attempted to retake Taiwan, the USA would interfere.
The Taiwanese shared nuclear technology with Apartheid South Africa, so, I could see a Taiwan which has essentially become a right wing version of North Korea having a nuclear program and nuclear weapons to hold the PRC hostage (and possibly Japan as well, if the KMT decides to use anti-Japanese rhetoric to fire up their population and prop up their regime).
 
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