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

For weeks, China and Japan have been engaged in a diplomatic row over the former's claim on self-governed Taiwan, which puts Seoul, a key regional power, in an awkward spot.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026

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

The self-governed enclave had 10,000 fighters at its disposal according to Azerbaijan, whose own army - estimated at over 120,000-strong by Western experts - dwarfed it.

From Reuters • Sep. 29, 2023

There are powerful women, as well as strong, pure, and self-governed men, of the real old Anglo-Saxon type.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady