When did I say the Taiwanese call themselves Chinese? I blatantly said the Chinese Nationalist Party moved to Taiwan because they lost the civil war against Mao Zedong Chinese Communist Party. During that time, the Chinese Nationalist Party (國民黨)Implemented students learning Mandarin and the Taiwanese were forbidden to speak the local language, 臺灣話 until 1987 when President Chiang Ching-Kuo lifted martial law. Let me ask you a question, what's the standard language of the nation of Taiwan? Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, Haka, Formosan language, etc. If you really know Taiwan, they write in Traditional Chinese characters while Mainland, Singapore, Malaysia uses Simplified Chinese system with Pinyin, while Taiwan uses Bofomofo aka 注音 (Zhuyin).