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How anyone serious can side with taiwan, other than maybe some nazis, is beyond me.
Well most of Taiwan is ready to unify, it's mostly the ruling class propped up by the US opposed to it. With the issues they have created for Taiwanese semiconductor companies there are probably even former loyalists ready to turn tail and run.
It's really the US - which can only dream of a war across the Pacific now - which wants a military confrontation. Mainland China will become too lucrative for Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea to ignore the more the US financial stranglehold starts to slip & China develops. Peaceful reunification is inevitable and war is merely possible now
I get why government opposing china would, what I dont get is regular people who are serious about this. Sure there is the propagandized herd, but even some smarter people I know seem to have weird sinophobic preconceptions about this. All europeans.
jesus christ, do you not know that taiwan was the retreat base of the losing faction of the civil war? they're literally chinese and speak mandarin and other variation of dialects coming from mainland lmao. the kuomintang ruled with an iron fist for decades up until recently, they also purged any opposition on the island (look up the White terror), isn't it curious how all these "free" democracies were imposed by force?
Taiwan is not sovereign, the government is a us puppet state, which is armed by us in gross violation of the us one china policy. If us puppet is your view of democracy then I see why you have no issue. All since beginning KMT was so horribly undemocratic, that even the maoists seemed very moderate. Some of the most vile stuff ive ever read came from kmt white terror(even wiki has some). I hope that im wrong, but the germans seem to like former nazi friendly states. Kmt had numerous connections to fascists and nazis.
Taiwanese are rich thanks to massive investments from US. As for the comparison to mainland, cpc managed an unprecedented in history wealth creation, comparing small part of china which received massive foreign capital inflow seems almost unreasonable.
Many taiwanese have also mainland residence, talk about not benefiting. What exactly do you mean by pro cpc propaganda? I get it it sounds bad, but why is it ok to run political ads in west and not in east?
i swear these idiots think history started 3 years ago and taiwan had no connection to China.
The Wikipedia page for Taiwan alone would prove this to be utterly false[^1]. How can you speak with such authority when you know you’re talking out your ass?
The rest of you what you wrote isn’t much better. It’s just the standard anti-China & anti-communist Western propaganda talking points.
What do you think this is, Reddit?
[^1]: Excepting the tiny minority of indigenous Formosans, whom the fascist KMT overran them when it retreated from the mainland..