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The CCP is so terrified of that little island.
I mean I'm no fan of the CCP either but there's likely not much fear involved here. It's basically an ego project, not unlike Cuba on the other side.
This is the second comment that I've seen where you compare to Cuba. Are you saying what China is doing is ok because America fucked over Cuba?
Nope. In my other comment I was saying that both are bad but America is worse; here I'm trying to say that both are ego projects, and therefore that the CCP's treatment of Taiwan doesn't imply fear any more than America's treatment of Cuba does. No real relation between the two comments except using the same comparison of how either powerful empire treats its pet rebellious province. For the record I think mainland China should leave Taiwan the fuck alone.
China is doing nothing though? Like, the Zionist media have been hinting at China attacking Taiwan for the best part of 20 years, and China is still Taiwan's biggest trading partner.
Please explain to us: what is China doing to Taiwan?
Very much unlike Cuba on the other side
While the US enacts an illegal embargo on Cuba with the explicit purpose of "hunger, desperation and overthrow of government" (look those words up on google), China is happily Taiwan's biggest trading partner by a long shot.
You're falling to anti-China propaganda of "both sides equally bad".
China is literally Taiwan's biggest partner...
Anything unusual going on at the time of that pretty graph which might have an impact on global trade? In any case, this doesn't seem relevant to why the CCP is quaking in their boots at tiny Taiwan and exerting the kind of pressure described in the article.
Why speculate? Come on, bring us more up-to-date data!
No? Doesn't seem relevant? That's because you don't understand "economic sanctions as political pressure". The US and Europe murder half a million people yearly through economic blockades and sanctions with the explicit purpose of destabilizing "enemy" governments. If China desired to take over Taiwan, do you really believe they'd literally be its largest trading partner? First thing Europe did to Russia in 2022 was a list of economic sanctions, why doesn't China do this?
Moreso, before the West brought back the issue in the mainstream, regular travel between China and Taiwan could be made relatively easily.
Ofcourse the losers of civil war shouldnt get to hold a territory as hostage with american bases there lol
Not the island itself but what America/the West turned it into: an unsinkable aircraft carrier (quoting general MacArthur here). But the days of Western imperialism might just be over, or at least that seems to be the way things are going, so I assume that island and mainland China will be just fine in the near future.
That island contains the true government of China and the CCP will do whatever they can to hold onto power so I don’t think they’ll be fine until one destroys the other.
The Kuomintang (KMT) is a major political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was the sole ruling party of the country from 1928 to 1949 in Mainland China until its relocation to Taiwan, and in Taiwan ruled under martial law until 1987.
[...] As a result of the 28 February Incident in 1947, Taiwanese people endured what is called the "White Terror", a KMT-led political repression that resulted in the death or disappearance of over 30,000 Taiwanese intellectuals, activists, and people suspected of opposition to the KMT
[...]The Blue Shirts Society, a ultranationalist paramilitary organization within the KMT that modeled itself after Mussolini's blackshirts, was anti-foreign and anti-communist, and it stated that its agenda was to expel foreign (Japanese and Western) imperialists from China, crush Communism, and eliminate feudalism.[72] In addition to being anticommunist, some KMT members, like Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand man Dai Li were anti-American, and wanted to expel American influence.[73] Close Sino-German ties also promoted cooperation between Nazi Germany and Nationalist government.[74] The Kuomintang sought to build a one-party ideological state in China, called Dang Guo, to solidify its rule and ideological supremacy
[...]The New Life Movement was a government-led civic movement in 1930s China initiated by Chiang Kai-shek to promote cultural reform and Neo-Confucian social morality and to ultimately unite China under a centralised ideology following the emergence of ideological challenges to the status quo. The Movement attempted to counter threats of Western and Japanese imperialism through a resurrection of traditional Chinese morality, which it held to be superior to modern Western values. As such the Movement was based upon Confucianism, mixed with Christianity, nationalism and authoritarianism that have some similarities to fascism.[76] It rejected individualism and liberalism, while also opposing socialism and communism. Some historians regard this movement as imitating Nazism and being a neo-nationalistic movement used to elevate Chiang's control of everyday lives. Frederic Wakeman suggested that the New Life Movement was "Confucian fascism"
WHY ARE YOU SUPPORTING FASCISTS
liberls will obviously support fascist.
Its not true government, no one recognizes it and they lost the civil war fair and sqaure, its only matter of time when CPC reunifies China.
Stupid take. By this metric the true government of the US are the confederates.
Can you point to the region where the Confederate government retreated to after the American civil war and remains in power to this day?
I get what you're implying but it's not factually correct in this case. The Confederacy was dissolved after it lost the civil war, there's no continuity with any of those state governments.
Then they too are wrong.
Living in the Deep South: my ass. Even Operation Paperclip was modified off what the US did with the Confederate scum: placed them in government and other positions of power and influence.
Sherman should have burned it all and salted the earth, besides.
Let's say there is a public school. I kill the principal, build a new school, hire 30% of the old school's teachers, and completely change the rules and curriculum.
Is the new school the same as the old school?
Maybe. Maybe not.
...trust me on this. Even the reconstruction and Jim Crow eras weren't equivalent to what was going on prior to the Confederacy. I know from personal experience that the south is a shithole, but you got to give them credit where it's due.
I'm not trusting anyone who says "trust me."
I know it was bad. I said what I said.
You don't have to trust me. The information is available on Wikipedia. You are objectively wrong. The government imposed on the south after the civil war is substantially different than the one that would have formed if the Confederacy had won.
I know what carpet baggers did, and I still don't support neo-slaver, ~~rewritten~~ revised history narratives.
You think the Taiwan wants to keep slaves?
That’s a dumb take why would Taiwan want slaves?
Did you just get self-trolled?