Many mainland China citizens joke that they
are living in the “Occupied Area”, they even require Ma Ying-jeou, president of
Taiwan, to recover mainland China. Maybe in face of the relatively cruel realities
of living in the mainland, no mainland people really regard himself as a
citizen of the Republic of China (with its government in Taipei), but some of
them use the national flag of ROC as their avatar in social networks, one of my
friends does so in QQ, an popular online chat tool. Fortunately, this is no
illegal in Mainland China.
Such saying of being in the “Occupied Area”
of China is not groundless, as the Republic of China officially claims mainland
China and Mongolia and other border areas as parts of its territory.