WI: Melting pot Taiwan

Is it possible for Taiwan to be an Island where in japanese, filipinos and chinese live together far as I know Orchid Island was settled by Filipinos before the Spanish came and the Japanese colonized it in OTL.
 

LadyPoland

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It would have required the Japanese to be more open about their own society. They never treated the Taiwanese like their own 1895 to 1945.
 
If one of the empires — say, the British or the French — had taken it over and seriously developed it, they might have encouraged immigration from China, Japan and the Philippines.
 
If one of the empires — say, the British or the French — had taken it over and seriously developed it, they might have encouraged immigration from China, Japan and the Philippines.
I was actually thinking of Taiwan being ruled by a Philippine State/Faction and later a Japanese faction before being in chinese control.
 
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Migration between Taiwan and the Philippines went in both directions, but there was never really any contact between the people. The Tao on Orchid Island didn't even have a lot of contact with the tribes on mainland Taiwan. There were a few scattered Japanese and Chinese living on the island long before the Dutch came, you just have to find a way to increase their numbers. In my Taiwan timeline, there was a gold rush in northern Taiwan around the time Japan takes over Okinawa, so many Okinawans decide to go to Taiwan rather than live under the rule of the Satsuma clan. The problem is that the aboriginals had very low population densities. Any significant migration from China or Japan is probably going to overwhelm them.

Lady Poland,
While the Japanese did not view the Taiwanese as equals, their standing, even that of the aboriginals, was much higher than the people in Japan's other colonies. There was a huge number of Japanese in Taiwan prior to WWII, had the war gone differently or if the Japanese had not left after their defeat, you would get a sort of melting pot Taiwan.
 
Migration between Taiwan and the Philippines went in both directions, but there was never really any contact between the people. The Tao on Orchid Island didn't even have a lot of contact with the tribes on mainland Taiwan. There were a few scattered Japanese and Chinese living on the island long before the Dutch came, you just have to find a way to increase their numbers. In my Taiwan timeline, there was a gold rush in northern Taiwan around the time Japan takes over Okinawa, so many Okinawans decide to go to Taiwan rather than live under the rule of the Satsuma clan. The problem is that the aboriginals had very low population densities. Any significant migration from China or Japan is probably going to overwhelm them.
There should be also a way to increase the 'Filipino' population on Taiwan..
 
My Afrikaner TL features an independent Taiwan, after the Afrikaners (based in India and Burma) attempt to buy Taiwan from the Qing and the British intervene to scupper this.

It ends up becoming an independent state where everybody--Chinese, Japanese, British, Afrikaners, Americans--are jockeying for power.

So if Taiwan somehow gets out from under the Qing and tries to become a trading hub doing business with everyone, this might work.
 
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