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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe I'm missing something but how does this legitimise the claim that China has over Taiwan? Surely you could use the same line of reasoning with Israel right? Genuinely curious btw as I've only ever dipped my toe into the history of this stuff. I feel like I'd like to look at any data gathered about how people living in Taiwan feel about this.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

A closer (but imperfect) analogy would be if during the US Civil War, The South retained Florida because The British intervened and prevented a reunifucation of the country, and neither side ever conceded, and there are still people alive that remember all of this happening.

And now The British are demanding international legitimacy for The Confederacy even though it's a red line for the North and most people in Florida don't even want it, but The British gain from it.

And to point out a major issue with the Israel analogy: Israel is a settler-colonial project of The West whereas Formosa was previously Chinese / indigenous, then colonized by the Japanese, and finally conquered by the imperialist-backed nationalists. This is closer to liberation than a colonial claim.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

you miss something , simple check out what the "excat" name of the Goverment currently (temporarly Embaressed) Presiding ON the ISLAND of Taiwan /Formosa is.

you dont even need to check that out i helped you

Both Sides Claim All of china its the most extremly logical thing a GOVERMENT OF CHINA can do. Its btw not your fault that you dont know shit about Taiwan , but have a vague feeling of Indignation on its behalf this is your Media working as Intented in its "SOFTPOWER" Capacity Media is Softpower , the ability to make you hate what is not your enemy....

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They really want to do the whole "inhuman orcs" thing for China, so they're looking at Taiwan and wishfully hoping for a Russia/Ukraine style invasion even though the conditions are completely different.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Let China join united nations? its already in the UN smh.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Starting to wonder if the ruling class wants a nuke dropped on their heads

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

if you asked them they'd say no, but they also view any loss of relative class position as an equivalent annihilation

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's fascinating how upset some people get when I say that Taiwan is a part of China. Considering I am just taking the same position as every major political party in my country, every EU country, every major Asian country, the US, and fucking Taiwan. It should not be that controversial.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Um sweaty, have you considered that everyone I disagree with is brainwashed or coerced? China is holding the entire world at gunpoint like my abusive ex, and Taiwan doesn’t know what’s good for themselves!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Translation: ACCELERATE! ACCELERATE! ANNIHILATORY IMPERIAL VIOLENCE IS THE ONLY WAY OUT OF NEOLIBERAL DEBT SERFDOM. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best thing for peace and stability is a provocative action by the West against a non-aggressive state

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Existing without being under the control of Burgerland is aggression maybe-later-honey

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Its the "isn't there someome you forgot to ask" meme, but with just existing

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Journalists for outlets like the Telegraph are hired precisely on the basis of how much their opinions align with ruling class interests. So to answer the question. Yes. There is something going on in their brain. Bourgeois class consciousness.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That building the girl with the Ukrainian flag is walking towards is the Chiang Kai-shek memorial, a monument to Taiwan’s brutal Cold War era US-backed fascist dictator. There’s a huge statue of him sitting on a throne like the Lincoln memorial through the arch in the middle.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ukraine flag people and supporting brutal fascist reigns of terror seems to go hand in hand.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

its so funny when westerners propose action in the UN directly against the interests of security council members with a veto.

remember that that thing the US uses to keep the UN from doing anything good? yeah it actually goes both ways, chum

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago
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