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I think the meme is suggesting that they were literally made by "the West" but maybe I'm missing something
Taiwan is part of the capitalist core which is basically synonymous with the west. Honorary west you could say, at least until its strategic significance drops and it will get abandoned by USA.
I understand that argument, but to me that departs from normal parlance of the kind that would ever be used in a meme.
Think of it like more of a political term than geographical, and so popular that anyone meaning geographical uses expressions like "western hemisphere" or clear point of orientation "west of...".