self-governed
Example Sentences
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Returning from his Beijing summit with the Chinese leader, the president said that “nothing’s changed” in the U.S. policy toward the democratic, self-governed island.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
He said Japan was closely monitoring developments on self-governed Taiwan as well.
From Seattle Times • May 26, 2024
Taiwan’s religious diversity and vitality forms a kind of subsoil of the self-governed island’s identity and values.
From New York Times • May 3, 2024
When the US normalised relations with China in 1979, it switched diplomatic recognition from the self-governed island of Taiwan, agreeing that there was only one China, whose government sat in Beijing.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2023
In theory ours is a self-governed people; in practice this is not wholly true.
From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)
