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• cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Irrelevant to the fact that Taiwan is an independent country.

  do you mean that you think it is an independent country, or rather, that you think it should be one?

  if you believe they are already independent, why do you think they still have an active independence movement? do any other independent countries have that? 🤔

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• Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So is Taiwan part of China or is it not? Because if they haven’t renounced their claims, then they’re still maintaining that they’re part of China, are they not?

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  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You don’t need to declare independence to be independent. Only if you were dependent in the first place you claim independence.

    ROC was never dependent on PRC. They just both claim the same territory. They are 2 independent countries that claim the same territory, just like both Israel and Palestine are 2 independent countries that claim the same territory.

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    • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Regardless, I agree with the traditional US stance of “strategic ambiguity” which does not formally recognize Taiwan as independent but treats it as being independent de facto. This stance has maintained peace for decades with Taiwan being functionally independent, so I can see no reasonable reason to deviate from that. So I will repeat my position that I consider Taiwan de facto independent, but not formally so.

      None of this has anything to do with the racism in the meme that I’m criticizing.

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      • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Pictured in this order:

        1. Ghost of previous goalpost
        2. Current goalpost

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