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Originally Posted by lio45
How about “because it’s been actively claiming that territory continuously since the late 1940s?” They officially see themselves as China’s government in exile. Your question sounds like “why on Earth would General de Gaulle willingly return to a semi-destroyed France in 1945, when he’s been perfectly comfortable living in a nice city like London?”
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Perhaps, but you have to remember that it's comparing one person who lived most of his life in a place wanting to return home after a short multi-year
exile compared to a group of people who mostly weren't even alive prior to the split. People who have never experienced a unified China may not have the same connection to it as those who have. Even the people who were alive back then were pretty young and probably don't remember that much about it. Enough time has past for a place to develop its own separate identity.