How to Use self-governing in a Sentence

self-governing

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• China claims the democratic self-governing island as its own, and Xi has not ruled out using force to take it.
  — David Rising, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
• Taiwan is a self-governing island that China claims as its own territory.
  — Jan Camenzind Broomby, NPR, 14 May 2026
• When those three things come together, patient safety stops being a values statement and becomes a self-governing system.
  — Joe Kiani, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
• China claims Taiwan, a self-governing democracy, as its own breakaway province and hasn’t renounced the use of force to bring it under its control.
  — ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026
• China claims the self-governing island as its territory and sanctioned four New Zealand lawmakers on Thursday to protest their recent visit.
  — ABC News, 4 June 2026
• The final package fell far short of what President Lai Ching-te insisted was necessary to prepare the self-governing island for a potential Chinese attack.
  — Scott Tong, NPR, 11 June 2026
• Taiwan’s Beijing-friendly opposition leader headed to the US for meetings with lawmakers at a time when Washington’s commitment to the self-governing island has been cast in doubt.
  — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 1 June 2026
• Lawmakers want to see the weapons sales move as anxiety rises that Taiwan — home to a majority of the world’s most advanced computer chips — could face an attack from China, which considers the self-governing island its territory.
  — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 22 May 2026
• Still, rising tensions over the self-governing island loom in the background, as the Iran war depletes the US’ weapons stockpile and Taiwan’s AI chip production raises the stakes for any potential conflict.
  — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026
• Both had been on the board of the 48 Cantones of Totonicapán—one of the country’s oldest Indigenous self-governing bodies, in rural western Guatemala—when the attorney general’s office had moved to annul the vote.
  — Will Freeman, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2026
• The collection of 18 islands between Scotland and Iceland is a self-governing region of Denmark, and the 54,000 people who live there have their own language, parliament, and culture distinct from the Danes.
  — Callie Radke Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2025
• These comments came after recent talks between Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio about American support for the self-governing island.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026