The DPP received significant funding from the US National Endowment for Democracy during that time. Coincidence? Probably not...
Same meddling shit that happened in Ukraine with Euromaidan and in China with Tiananmen Square. Even the US PsyOps teams themselves admit that they were responsible for those events.
I'd love to say that the Taiwanese people themselves came to the conclusion, but time and time again the US has showed that the people's choice isn't something they really respect abroad.
Ah yes, the classic "domination through trade"
Last I checked, China's been developing every energy source known to man (except O&G, because they don't have a domestic supply of O&G except in the contested waters of the SCS)...
China is the world leader in new nuclear development, new hydro development, solar panel manufacturing, wind turbine manufacturing, solar panel deployment, wind turbine deployment, electric vehicles, and carbon capture+storage.
Maybe if other economies would help pick up the slack? China's been firing on all cylinders towards green tech for decades, but it turns out that urbanizing and industrializing 1 billion people to a Western standard of living is really fucking energy-intensive. Meanwhile, everyone else is just sitting on their ass and watching.
"let's blame Hamas for the recession because we sure as hell can't blame Russia for it"
Israeli propaganda forces out in force recently
This same exact hospital has been bombed by the IDF in the past. Occam's razor exists for a reason.
Yes but see, clearly Hamas is everywhere and that clearly justifies the civilian casualties. Clearly.
Because the last time Gazans tried a peaceful protest, thousands of people got shot by the Zionist regime: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2019/02/no-justification-israel-shoot-protesters-live-ammunition
Because Palestine cannot win a conventional war against Israel.
Because Palestine cannot let the status quo continue to oppress them, because the status quo is itself encroaching on Palestinian land and Palestinian rights.
Do you have a better solution? These attacks have caused a massive flight of people from Israel, have forced the Bank of Israel to take very aggressive action to avoid the collapse of the shekel, have mobilized the countries bordering Israel, and have indicated that Palestinian resistance is not hopeless.
When have Western powers ever cared about the "rules-based international order?" They'll only whine and moan when nations that they don't support violate the rules they've made, but when the regimes that they've propped up do so? That's just business, man.
You'd imagine that support for revolutionaries seeking self-determination would be stronger in the West given the origins of the modern American and French state.
Everyone knows that Muslims aren't human