台灣蒙古

     
Two current democracies, Mongolia and Taiwan, opposites in size and population,
have a strange, intertwined past. Mongolia is now the world’s 19th largest state
in area, but ranks 140th in population. Diminutive Taiwan barely makes 137th by area,
yet it ranks 51st in population.

         兩個現代的民主國家，
    蒙古和台灣，奇怪糾纏的過去。

         地區和人口的不同
按面積 蒙古是世界第19大地區，但在人口位列第140位。

微小的台灣 面積勉強世界第137名，但它的人口位列第51名。

As the Qing Empire broke apart, Mongolia followed suit and declared independence from China.
Unfortunately, it soon found that the formative ROC claimed Mongolia as part of its territory.
ROC forces invaded Mongolia. Russia, which would have its own revolution in 1917, stepped in
and ironically became responsible for making Mongolia the independent nation it is today.
Aided first by White Russians against the Chinese and then by Red Russians, Mongolia broke free
and declared a second independence in 1921.

 

     大清帝國解體，蒙古宣布從中國獨立。
  不過，中華民國宣稱蒙古是其領土的一部分。

  俄羅斯 1917年的革命 承認蒙古為獨立國家。

先由 白俄羅援助，然後由紅俄羅斯援助對抗中國，

      蒙古終於1921年宣布第二次獨立。
 

Another player, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), founded in 1921, would soon enter
and have a part in this developing scenario. The CCP became involved in an on-again,
off-again civil war with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) for control of China.
They won that civil war and established the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949.
While the KMT’s ROC retreated to Taiwan.

   另一方面，中國共產黨 ，成立於1921年，

為了對中國的控制權 中共斷斷續續 與中國國民黨戰鬥。

最終他們贏得了內戰，並於1949年成立的中國人民共和國 。

       而國民黨的中華民國退守台灣。
 

If one would pursue this twisted form of logic, Mongolia might have the “greater claim”
to be a “time immemorial part of China.” For after Genghis Khan unified the Mongols in 1206,
he and his successors went on to conquer China and numerous other lands, creating an empire
that stretched from the Korean Penninsula to the area now known as Budapest in Hungary.

      如果 想追根求追根究底這扭曲的歷史，

     蒙古在遠古時代就可硬說是占有中國的。

       因為 成吉思汗於 1206年統一蒙古，

   他的繼任者 繼續征服中國和許多其他土地，

          蒙古創造了 從朝鮮半島

延伸到現在被稱為布達佩斯匈牙利地區的大帝國。