Podcat posted a screenshot of Taiping in the Why No Taiping Rebellion? thread. So any statement that they won't add new countries is false.
Oh wow, I hadn't seen that. It's a hell of a turnaround after arguing for several days that they weren't going to do it. Maybe this proves the Devs are susceptible to mass community pressure... Maybe it's time to demand all those other things they said they wouldn't do, like getting only your core provinces from the acquire core CB...