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HK and Macao use traditional characters, sure, but it's not because they "adopted" the characters that the ROC used. They became foreign colonies during the Qing dynasty, which also used traditional characters, since simplified characters weren't invented yet. However, they are used to write the cantonese language, not the mandarin language that the ROC used.
Singapore transitioned to using simplified character and now you'll pretty much only see mandarin written in simplified there. Malaysia is in the process of transitioning, hence it's more of a mess.
Taiwan still uses traditional out of some sense of national pride
However "traditional" is not the original characters exactly, and some traditional characters are already simplified to some degree
oh wait this is a meme why did i type all this
Because I got to learn something cool about languages.