Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895 under the Treaty of Shimonoseki following the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. Though Taiwan was returned to China in 1945, due to the civil war between the Kuomintang and Communists and the outbreak of the Korean War, it became a place "protected" by American hegemonism.
台灣在甲午戰後於一八九五年的馬關條約中割讓給日本，一九四五年雖歸還中國，又由於國共內戰、韓戰爆發而成為美國霸權所「保護」。