Taiwan’s foremost defense analyst said a successful takeover by Beijing would turn the island into “China’s Hawaii,” giving the Chinese military the ability to strike at the U.S. West Coast.
Bullshit. Hawaii is in the middle of the Pacific, and Taiwan is barely off the coast of China.
"Let's try making the American public fear a nuclear attack."
"But wouldn't a basic familiarity with geography undermine that approach?"
"...Yeah I wouldn't worry about it."
Taiwan is already a settler-colonial apartheid state, just read about the history of indigenous Taiwanese
Not any off the top of my head but it's been bad for hundreds of years. First the dutch (admittedly only there for like a couple years), then the Ming (also short time), then the Qing, then the Japanese (by far the most destruction happens in this period) and then the KMT. Taiwan only really started reconciling with its treatment of the indigenous in the 1990s. However I will also say that AFAIK it did not compare under the KMT to South African apartheid. Many indigenous Taiwanese in fact vote KMT today though that's changing. A similar series of events kind of happened with Hainan Island as well (though Hainan indigenous people sided with the communists, and suffered massacres for that by the KMT and the Japanese, while indigenous Taiwanese had a different experience since they were under Japanese rule for several decades while Hainan was not and had a very long period of colonization with significant interactions going back over 1000 years while Taiwan is basically not interacted with till the 1600s).
The damage done to Taiwans indigenous people, and that of the Ainu in Hokkaido are probably the most understudied instances of settler colonialism in East Asia.
I don’t see it happening to be quite honest. I know the rebel government wants it, and the US will continue using them as an outpost for the foreseeable future, but if Beijing ever says, “hey, that’s ours and we’d like it back,” I could see a struggling American empire saying, “Fuck it, go ahead.” Also lol at the idea of China wanting war with the US and not vice versa, or does China do annual naval drills with Cuba in the Gulf of Mexico and I’m just not aware?
they do. q told me so. he's telling me so right now, it's just you can't see him because im special. promise.
b-but china is doing evil naval exercises near us bases in the south china sea ;-;
I don't think the give it back would ever happen though. The invasion to occupy the island would be a nightmare and kill hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops, and hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese and civilians. It'd be a disaster for everyone and fuck with the economic order pretty hard. I mean Foxconn has 1 million employees in China.
I think that Taiwan would be one of the very last places that a crumbling US would cut ties with, just as a "fuck you" to the PRC. If things continued to destabilize (I don't think it will get quite so far in our lifetimes, but who knows), Taiwan might reorient themselves toward the PRC, but there would probably need to be a catalyst.
Taiwan has been calling itself the Israel of Asia since the 70s , no surprise there
✅genocide
✅only use is as a military outpost for the us empire
✅never should have existed
I can see it
I thought Hainan was China's Hawaii. What will Hainan be if Taiwan is Hawaii? :china:
