• randint@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Taiwan is not a part of the PRC, de facto or de jure. Say that Taiwan is a part of China all you want, but it never has been a part of the PRC.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      The German Democratic Republic was never part of the Federal Republic of Germany either. Until it was.

      What a completely irrelevant exercise in pedantry.

      • randint@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        The truth, like it or not, is that PRC has never, ever seized control of Taiwan. Hopefully it never does. This is not pedantry.

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Please cite the principle of international law which requires the present day iteration of a state's government to have had past administration of a breakaway territory in order to assert a claim of ownership over said territory.

          Please also cite any supporting state practice and opinio juris.