Even “ownership” is a human concept that is manipulable (is there such a word?) or manipulated at will. As i said, i agree with pretty well all of your assessment of the situation (i’ve read up on that messy issue in the last two years), but i also think that hardly anybody - especially not the powers that be on both sides of the Pacific - give a fig’s leaf about any of your sound reasoning. I happen to live in Taiwan right now, and what i experience every day is real enough for me to call it “real” 
- and i am sure that is the same for the other 23 or so million people who live on this island. I have actually nothing to argue with you about. 
(Of course, i don’t refer to “Taiwan” as “ROC”, but that is just my own idiosyncrasy. )
By the way, did you ever figure out that little technical problem you asked about there: HTML design question . . . . hiding .css file(s) ?