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Xi Jinping says no one can stop China’s ‘reunification’ with Taiwan
(www.independent.co.uk)
Okay, West Taiwan.
Sounds rather rapey when you put it that way, doesn't it?
Very. But I still expect to see plenty of hypocritical leninists ignoring or defending this. Telling us that Daddy Xi is only killing them for their own good. And that if they just lay back and took it that they would learn to enjoy it.
Not that it's ever made sense that they defend certain capitalists. While denouncing capitalism and other capitalist governments.
Definitely not something an imperialist would say.
Oh is the PRC going to surrender to the ROC? Because Taiwan was never part of the PRC. For there to be reunification, the PRC would have to give mainland China back to the ROC.
Taiwan has never been your territory, Xi Smallping-energy.
So the coup is finally over?
I wouldn’t want to be getting into a shooting war after seeing what Russia has got itself into. Fuck, Russia lost its fleet to a country without a navy.
Does Xi think he can keep a land army supplied in the era of drones taking out surface combatants?
How did this work out for Hong Kong?
The difference being several, one hong Kong is inside of China with its territorial boundaries being only legal and social. Two hong kong actually believed the laws and structure they put in place would hold while Taiwan is under no such illusion
Lol thought it was already a part of China poohpants
Totally not imperialism trust me bro.
I mean....It ain't? Taiwan, the Kuomintang, were literally the imperialists. Taiwan was always China but China changed and....yeah modern china should probably leave Taiwan alone because it's literally the old chinese government but 100 years later, but they won't, their government actually thinks in millenia
At some point Poland held Moscow for a year. We need to get it back I guess. We like to think in milenia as well.
If Fascist China thinks the EU and US will give up their largest producer of semiconductors then they're severely mistaken
What do you think they would do to stop it?
The us would probably enter war to stop it, Taiwan is pretty valuable to us
“Us” being? Taiwan didn’t send me a Christmas card.
Bet they made the processor you used to write that comment.
War is necessary… so I can text grandma? Do ya’ll not hear yourselves?
How would you keep the imperialists from stealing land?
Are you talking about the White Terror?
No, not even a little bit.
I'm talking about imperialists stealing land. What land was stolen by the Taiwanese during the White Terror?
For example, the Soviet Union would have stolen Finland if they could, but Finland was (still is) heavily armed and it would not have been worth the Soviets' trouble. This is a clear example that when it comes to imperialists like the Soviet Union, the threat of war is necessary to prevent it. This isn't about starting war. It's about preventing it.
Is America not imperialist? Why is it not okay when they do it, but okay when we do?
Maybe imperialism is bad when anyone does it.
I never defended American Imperialism.
America is defending Taiwan, ipso facto, you did.
I'm sorry, but I have to give up on you.
It’s fine. None of this matters.
That attitude explains everything.
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It's gross how they always refer to these things as "reunifying".
Why isn't that an appropriate term? It was part of China's (Qing) territory from 1684 until the Japanese occupations, and is only disunified because of an unresolved civil war. Taiwan (officially the "Republic of China") considers themself to be China. So why wouldn't their combination be the reunification of China?
Get your authoritarian ass outta here😂
Uh,
From 1949 to 1987, the KMT ruled Taiwan as an authoritarian one-party state after the February 28 incident.
So its no longer an authoritarian government for 38 years now. Thanks for pointing that out!
In the mean time Xi is serving his 3rd term in PRC right now, or 4th? Ignoring the rules set up by his predecessors. And you think that's better?
Even the UN 🇺🇳 doesn’t recognize Taiwan 🇹🇼.
Because China holds a veto power. What's your point? China won't allow Taiwan to join a club that China's partially in control of. In other news, water is wet.
Interesting, the ROC doesn’t hold veto power? How can China join the club, if Taiwan is the rightful government representing all the Chinese people?
He been saying stuff like this for many years.. especially China's red lines "don't visit Taiwan or else.." and nothing happens.
Gotta keep up moral and focus away from things like their economy that's going down 👎
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