How to Use self-ruling in a Sentence
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Taiwan is a self-ruling democracy but is viewed by China as its own territory.
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Wayne Chang,
CNN Money,
18 Nov. 2025
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China claims the self-ruling Taiwan as its own and has not ruled out using force to take control of the democratic island.
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Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
20 June 2026
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Xi also wants to focus on Washington’s stance on Taiwan, the self-ruling democracy that Beijing claims as its territory.
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Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC news,
13 May 2026
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Like Assad before him, Sharaa now faces complex negotiations toward bringing these self-ruling territories under his command.
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Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2025
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Not only that, but Greenland, a self-ruling territory of Denmark, lacks the infrastructure and manpower required to make this mining dream a reality.
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Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
12 Jan. 2026
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But the real change might be in East Asia, where Kim’s belligerence and rising fears regarding China’s designs on self-ruling Taiwan had already reenergized the nuclear debate.
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Charlie Campbell,
Time,
28 Mar. 2026
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The dispute began when Takaichi, who was elected last month, told lawmakers that a hypothetical Chinese attack on self-ruling Taiwan, which at its closest point is about 70 miles from Japanese territory, could threaten Japan’s survival and trigger a military response from Tokyo.
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Peter Guo,
NBC news,
25 Nov. 2025
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While Guo reiterated China’s position on sensitive topics such as Taiwan – a self-ruling island democracy that Beijing claims as its own territory – his statement was otherwise cautiously neutral, lacking the vitriol that often characterizes Chinese responses to US policy.
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Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
12 Dec. 2025
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