Nationalist China

British  

noun

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

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Nationalist China ¹ Cultural  

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.

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Nationalist China ² Cultural  

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.

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Example Sentences

Customs impounded 10,000 seed pearls from the U.S., and journalists were assured that the origins of the silk produced in Kent and woven in Essex were worms from “nationalist” China rather than “enemy” Japan.

From Seattle Times

The group was nicknamed the Flying Tigers after the famed volunteer fighter group that Chennault created to defend nationalist China before the U.S. entered the war.

From Seattle Times

Over the past few days the shape of what many in Europe and the United States call a new Cold War has begun to emerge — with threats and nuclear weapons that resemble the old one, punctuated by new dynamics, in part because of the rise of a rich, expanding and nationalist China.

From New York Times

Army Air Corps Capt. Claire Chennault had been recruited by Nationalist China leader Chiang Kai-shek to lead that country’s struggling air force.

From Washington Times

So if the U.S. goes nationalist, China will respond “tit for tat.”

From Seattle Times