self-governed
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He also told Trump that Washington should be "prudent" when supplying weapons to the self-governed island which China has long claimed.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
As for China, President Xi Jinping has made few outright threats against the self-governed island of Taiwan recently.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025
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
Taiwan’s Taiex declined 0.2% to 17,512.83 on the eve of presidential and legislative elections that will test the self-governed island’s relations both with Beijing and with Washington.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2024
Their infancy had been upon the whole what their manhood was to be, self-governed and republican.
From Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists by Froude, James Anthony
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
