• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Obviously they’re different. But failing to empathize when given the analogy shows either the inability or unwillingness to understand China’s position.

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      I understand the PRC’s position just fine because they’ve been explicit about it for decades: They believe that Taiwan, an island they’ve never controlled, is theirs by imperial right based on the Qing dynasty’s rule over it for ~200 years prior to 1900.

      We don’t need to “empathize” with a desire for imperial conquest, we just need to stand in the way of it.

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      The US wouldn’t be arming Taiwan if China wasn’t making the claim that it is part of China. Taiwan poses literally zero threat to china. There is no US comparison here.

      It’s the same shit with Ukraine and Russia, and China is watching closely. It’s probably easier politically for Republicans to fund a nation not in conflict, because the deterrence doesn’t look like as big a win for Biden, so this is why they intelligently to along with it.

      • bufalo1973@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        From Wikipedia:

        Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

        What were you saying?

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          What’s your point? Did you just stop there and not read the next sentence that says “It is located at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest”?

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            1 year ago

            My point is that Taiwan IS a part of China. Two different governments but the same country. And both say they are the “real” China.

        • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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          Wait until you hear about the official names of China, or North and South Korea

          (For the uninitiated: People’s Republic of China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and Republic of Korea. Tl;dr there’s more than one issue if you’re going off the country’s official name for which land they own)

    • Gabu@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ll piss on the CCP any day of the week, thank you very much. I’m a communist, by the way.