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Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yep, because Taiwan is a country, and the real China.
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It is sad. Everyone is gloating, cheering on a possible conflict in the future. We’ve seen this kind of escalation and warmongering in 2013 in Ukraine. “Of course that country on the doorstep of our big geopolitical rival should be independent and join our military pact! Hahaha lololol!”
dickalan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]OctaviaMeowzly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
average .ml user (aka tankie)
dickalan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You just throw that word around for anybody you fucking creep, fuck off and avoid labeling me in the future
OctaviaMeowzly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
srry, I thought you were sucking off the ccp
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
That’s kinda like if the Confederacy, upon losing the Civil War, fled and occupied Cuba, and was propped up millitarily by, say, the UK as a millitary foothold to keep the US in check back when the UK still had Imperialist chops, then saying the Confederate-occupied Cuba is the real US.
The fact is, the Communists and Nationalists had a 2 decade long civil war, and the Communists won against the Nationalists, who then fled to Taiwan, where the Nationalists have maintained that they are the legitimate government of China.
As with any revolution, such as the French, American, Vietnamese, Russian, Cuban, etc, I don’t think it makes much sense to declare the French Monarchy, British Empire, French Colonialists, Russian Tsarists, or fascist Batista regime the “rightful” rulers of the countries the people themselves overthrew, and that extends to China.
As for Taiwanese people, the overwhelming majority support maintaining the status quo, with few wanting hard independence or reconcilliation. This may change now that the US is pivoting away from them as well, but both the PRC and ROC seem to be content to maintain the uneasy status quo for the time being.
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Holy copy-pasta, batman!
Can I get a delicious cookie recipe as well?
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
No?
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I thought Taiwan was an independently country?
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Don’t pull a muscle, prc boi
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 2 months ago
China is West Taiwan
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The USA is west Cuba
uis@lemm.ee 2 months ago
USA is East Alaska.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Occupied mainland Taiwan
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
That’s kinda like if the Confederacy, upon losing the Civil War, fled and occupied Cuba, and was propped up millitarily by, say, the UK as a millitary foothold to keep the US in check back when the UK still had Imperialist chops, then saying the Confederate-occupied Cuba is the real US.
The fact is, the Communists and Nationalists had a 2 decade long civil war, and the Communists won against the Nationalists, who then fled to Taiwan, where the Nationalists have maintained that they are the legitimate government of China.
As with any revolution, such as the French, American, Vietnamese, Russian, Cuban, etc, I don’t think it makes much sense to declare the French Monarchy, British Empire, French Colonialists, Russian Tsarists, or fascist Batista regime the “rightful” rulers of the countries the people themselves overthrew, and that extends to China.
As for Taiwanese people, the overwhelming majority support maintaining the status quo, with few wanting hard independence or reconcilliation. This may change now that the US is pivoting away from them as well, but both the PRC and ROC seem to be content to maintain the uneasy status quo for the time being. War would be devastating for Taiwan in particular.
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 2 months ago
4 paragraphs of response… Is this a bot response? Or did you just take my comment way too serious?
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It’s a direct comparison to what calling the PRC “West Taiwan” means. It means you uphold the Nationalist Kuomintang as the wrongfully overthrown dictatorship that should have never lost the Chinese Civil War.