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Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week
(www.reuters.com)
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this is just not true. the overwhelming majority want a return to the status quo, a status quo that was very consistently gravitating towards china before the US decided to stir shit using its DPP puppets. the taiwanese people are perfectly capable of understanding which side their bread is buttered on and that their families cannot subsist on a diet of freedom and democracy.
Hmmm
i can't believe i enabled images for this
they're not even figures, they're just snippets of text from natopedia that somehow unequivocally support my claim
what am i supposed to do with this? gloat?
If you actually read it you would know the vast majority either want to keep the self-governance or become fully independent (50%). Both of those are some form of separatism, even if most of them don't want anything radical that could trigger a war.
and a plurality of people believe that maintaining the status quo == independence
where is the gotcha?
I said Taiwanese people are overwhelmingly separatists. Proved to be true, seeing only 18% want China having any control over them.
jfc, points for trying to turn this into a semantics game but sorry, fuck you
lets look at bbc, first result we get when we search "台独民意调查“ on google.hk because apparently google.tw is too spicy for google's techbro commissariat. whatever, close enough:
even tries to reframe it by breaking up de facto status quo supporters into two camps but plurality still supports status quo
how about cn language natopedia
2020, NCCU (same as the bbc study):
2021, united news:
2022, 'taiwanese public opinion foundation' (read: cia cutout):
look at how they progressively split the status quo category (the size of which does not demonstrably change) into smaller and smaller demos to try and push an agenda
let's give you the benefit of the doubt and more closely examine what is obviously the most compromised source here. this is the cia cutout's (shitty and completely unprofessional) paper from this year. they'd probably lose funding if they put something as damning as actual independence vs status quo numbers out there so they decided to go with plausibly deniable second order opinion sets and STILL get blown the fuck out
just take the L dude, taiwanese are completely cognizant of the fact they're being primed to be the next ukraine and most of them understandably want no part of that
I've never heard of the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation. It's hard to find info about it.
You're putting Chinese character as if anyone here know how to read it.
The only thing in the website you linked show this: