Okay GC:

Let's just for the sake of argument say that in 15 years Shanghai will have a greater per capita GDP that Taiwan--will Changsha have a larger per capita GDP than say Taichung? 台中市 Or even Hsing Ying 新營市? Shanghai is not China and until places like Gansu and Qinghai and Hubei, etc have a per capita GDP over $1000 USD then any talk of China as a economic super power is just that.

What China is is a source of cheap labor--just like Korea, Taiwan and even Japan were in decades past. And the law of that is--rush to the bottom--how long before it is Vietnam that will be the world's labor low baller?

And again. So what. You continue to avoid the central question. And I'll again try to make it simple for you.

Is Taiwan a province of the PRC? Yes or no? Why is it so difficult for you to answer this?