Listen to a reading of this article: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has continued to pour gasoline on the foreign policy dumpster fire that is her planned visit to Taiwan next month, now reportedly encouraging other members of congress to come along for the ride.
The country exists because of cold war (I guess technically pre-cold war) era anti-communism, and there were plans of launching an invasion of China through Taiwan. But I think computer chip manufacturing is giving them an additional layer of safety.
The KMT does not represent Taiwan. If the kmt never arrived and took over, Taiwanese would still not have identified as Chinese in nationality.
However, if the Qing dynasty put more effort into actually controlling and governing ALL of Taiwan, and not just small parts of it, and Japan never took over, and if the kmt never retreated to Taiwan, then that would be a different story but we don't live in that timeline do we.
Taiwan was always an island of non importance to the Qing dynasty until it became part of a naval trade route.
The KMT/DPP reactionaries and anti-communists actually do represent Taiwan now because they colonized it and killed and fully repressed the locals. This is why Taiwan should not be allowed to be “independent” from China, because it will just be a de facto military base for the Western imperialists.
Taiwan is China, nobody disagrees with this. Not Taiwanese people nor Chinese people. The only disagreement is who is the legitimate government of China as a whole, and the answer to that is obviously the PRC
Taiwan is already independent from China. The Qing dynasty did control small parts of it for like 250 years.
Taiwan isn't a military base for anyone, not even itself. It's no Okinawa or Ukraine. Everyone agrees that their military is shit.
The only people who actually agree with this are Chinese nationalists, either from mainland China or extremely old KMT people in Taiwan.
It was the KMT who repressed the locals. Look up the white terror period. And they're from China. The CPC should bring them back to China and redistribute their stolen assets/land. Anything taken from China should be returned to China. Anything taken from locals in Taiwan should be redistributed or returned. The DPP is just a party that counters the KMT.
The Taiwanese rightoid defender had logged on
China will be united again and there’s nothing you angloid colonial apologists can do about it
The DPP is the liberal icing on top of the fascist KMT foundation. They don’t “oppose” the KMT in any real meaningful sense, they are the equivalent of the post Pinochet “liberal” government in Chile - that is how fascist color revolts and outposts work, you put in a fascist dictator until you suppress the contradictions and kill the commies (white terror), then put in a liberal puppet to keep people content and manufacture legitimacy. Happened in Japan and South Korea too. Defending the DPP is like defending the modern South Korean government.
It’s a continuation of the same leadership class, and those DPP crypto-fascists will be destroyed and their junta government destroyed
South Korea and Taiwan will both be decolonized
what are you even talking about. words have meanings.
Please be specific in what part confused you