How to Use self-ruling in a Sentence

self-ruling

adjective

• Taiwan is a self-ruling democracy but is viewed by China as its own territory.
  — Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
• China claims the self-ruling Taiwan as its own and has not ruled out using force to take control of the democratic island.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 20 June 2026
• Xi also wants to focus on Washington’s stance on Taiwan, the self-ruling democracy that Beijing claims as its territory.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 13 May 2026
• Like Assad before him, Sharaa now faces complex negotiations toward bringing these self-ruling territories under his command.
  — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
• Not only that, but Greenland, a self-ruling territory of Denmark, lacks the infrastructure and manpower required to make this mining dream a reality.
  — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 22 Jan. 2026
• 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.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 28 Mar. 2026
• 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.
  — Peter Guo, NBC news, 25 Nov. 2025
• 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.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025