Democratic revolution in PROC. How does ROC react?

The Chinese communist party is taken down by a revolution and a democratic republic is formed in China (perhaps regions like Tibet and Xinjiang break free).

How would the "exciled" ROC react to this?

Just a random idea :)
 
It's PRC not PROC. "Of" and "and" aren't in abbreviations.

And if the PRC became democratic, I don't think Taiwan could really do anything.

Really depends on WHEN the revolution happens. If it's before the 70's, I say that Taiwan has a shot becoming the "legitimate" government of China. Afterwards? It'll be really tough because by 1980, the entire world pretty much turned its back from Taiwan and recognized the PRC as the "official ruler" over mainland China.
 
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Depends, if its in the 80s or 90s then I think the only thing that changes is the PRC becomes Democratic. Maybe Taiwan could gain actual,official independence and the ROC would be disestablished?

However,if its in the 60s or 70s,the ROC would probably return to the mainland.
 
If it's before Mao's death, there's no way the PRC falls and magically turns into a democratic republic (a really democratic one, not a Democratic People's Republic one). Regime collapse equals state collapse. We're back to the 1920s. Not fun all around. Chiang now has a chance to gradually retake the mainland for the second time. It will be far more difficult than when he did in the 1920s/30s, in part because of the loose nukes.

If it's during the 1980s or even 1990s (suppose Zhao Ziyang gets his way during the Tiananmen Square protests), there will be a period of instability. At this time, Chinese identity was still quite strong in Taiwan. Assuming central government remains in business, they'll make an agreement to some sort of confederation. Though it's quite possible that a Putin-style strongman takes power in Beijing after a decade, especially if the post-PRC state is weak and/or corrupt.
 
If it's actually democratic, then the ROC will be overthrown. They weren't democratic until very recently, and they were VERY unpopular.
 
The pro-independence folk will probably come to power and declare independence as Taiwan. Alternatively if the pan-Chinese retain power, then they will probably negotiate semi-autonomy a la Hong Kong.
 
It's PRC not PROC. "Of" and "and" aren't in abbreviations.

"O" for "Of" is usually omitted, but far from always.

What does "ROK" stand for? Or "ROC"?

Or "POTUS", "SCOTUS", "COS", "ROF", "POV", "POD", "POS", "LOC", "DOJ", "DOD", "MOD", "POW", "TOC", "DOB"?

I can't think of an English abbreviation using "A" for "and", but I do know of two non-English abbreviations which use the initial of the corresponding word in that language: "KUK" and "BIH".
 
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