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China says Australia must accept Taiwan reunification or face ‘no forgiveness’
(www.theaustralian.com.au)
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Families that were caught on opposite sides? You mean the ROC soldiers that occupied Taiwan after losing the Civil War? Yeah, there's ample channels currently for that, I don't shed tears for waishengren occupiers sorry.
Point is, you don't have any skin in the game, you're LARP-ing as a revolutionary because you're pissed at the US currently. I get you, sorta. But I ain't buying the "principled anti-imperialist" facade.
Yes, so you clearly don't agree that the KMT had any material claim to being a legitimate government and the Japanese claim was an imperialist one. So undoing both of those leaves us with Taiwan being a province of China and China being under the governance of the CPC and the protection of the PLA. I am glad we agree.
You're in England. You live in the old heart of the empire. You're with the very people who subjugated China with gun boat diplomacy and spent the last 300 years, at least, producing anti-Chinese propaganda. I know you want to claim some form of supremacy that allows you to dismiss valid critique as revolutionary LARPing, but that's not actually addressing anything other than your inability to formulate meaningful responses.
No it fucking doesn't. The PRC's sole claim to Taiwan hinges on the civil war framework and the succession of states, which only works if the ROC has sovereignty over Taiwan (shocker: they don't, Taiwan and Pescadores were put under ROC administrative control only after Japan surrendered).
I love how confidently wrong you are about most things you discuss here, including where I'm from and my ethnicity. I find it amusing. Maybe try again, third time it's the charm