• gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Then again, the CCP has never ruled Taiwan either…

    Oh yeah that’s like exactly the same situation.

    1. Send US military to “protect” one side in the Chinese civil war and occupy parts of China.
    2. Say you’re in favor of eventual peaceful reunification, but actually prevent it for decades.
    3. Break promise and claim the territory was never really part of China to begin with.
    4. Pretend you’re the victim and China is “expansionist”.
    5. World War 3?
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      11 months ago

      Or, you know, you could actually respect the right to self determination of the Taiwanese people, rather than "America bad"ing your way to imperialism

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        11 months ago

        The Taiwanese don’t hold the power, if you’re talking about the indigenous peoples. Taiwan wouldn’t be what it is now without imperialism in the first place. And the Chinese people in power don’t consider their island independent from the mainland, which they also lay claim to. It doesn’t seem like a clear-cut self-determination issue to me.

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        11 months ago

        Good idea. Maybe that’ll stop the at least some of uninformed comments here.