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• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The USA is west Cuba

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    USA is East Alaska.

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Occupied mainland Taiwan

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• 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.

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  • 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?

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    • 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.

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