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- world@quokk.au
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/56321695
Taiwan must work together to protect its democracy and not become part of China, President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday, July 19, calling on members of his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to oppose the “red terror” coming from Beijing.
Lai, who won election two years ago, and his ruling DPP, champion Taiwan’s separate identity from China, a position that frequently angers Beijing which views the island as an inviolable part of Chinese territory.
Speaking to the DPP’s annual convention, Lai said Taiwan must remain vigilant in times of peace, pointing to what he said was China’s “legal warfare”, such as its new ethnic unity law which gives Beijing the basis to take action against people outside its borders.
That has alarmed Taiwan, because it could give Beijing another legal basis to try and prosecute or arrest Taiwanese it views as separatists. China has rejected all criticism of the law. China’s legal system has no jurisdiction in Taiwan.
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He is president of the Republic of China, I’m not sure he would say he does not want to become China
Capitalists who flew to the island wanted to regain control of the whole country
Capitalist like China, right?
There are capitalists in China (a good part of the means of production are privately owned). The government and its politics are socialist (with Chinese characteristics)
I think he means thst he doesnt want the last remaining bit of China to call to the Communist Insurrectionists (maybe theres a letter term for this).
Eh, the insurrectionists built the global super power while the regime is hiding on an island. I think the communists didn’t go far enough
The old government became democratic, and the worlds single largest supplier of almost all microchips despite the PRC breathing down their necks and constantly running “military excercises” right next to them, and threatening to take them over constantly. I think you dont give the ROC enough credit.
Keep it America’s Taiwan as it has been since WW2, ofc. 🤔
Tsmc saying they’re ramping up the Arizona factory has me worried China will invade
Fairly sure Taiwan will willingly ask for reunification once the economic benefits from the US collapse and the general population grab the ruling classes of ROC
I wouldn’t want to be annexed by a genocidal country either.
Funny story, every nation is genocidal because it’s ingrained in human nature
Werent there studies thst showed this to be wrong? I heard something about it being caused by propoganda so that people can gain something out of it. Turn the people against each other and they will never fight you, or something like that?
Most nations aren’t actively genociding though.
I know you say most, but to point out one very, very big outlier: the PRC (Peoples republic of China, the communist insurrectionists that somehow became the primary leaders of the chinese mainland) against the Uyghur people in China, who are currently undergoing forced organ harvesting, forced castration, literally concentration camps, etc.
That we know of
This sounds like a horrible way of normalizing genocide by claiming that everyone does it.
Totally not my intention. I just think it’s important to keep in mind that every nation tries to rewrite history and hide their own skeletons.
It really reads like you’re trying to minimize the genocide China is currently committing.
Minimizing US atrocity propaganda is a good thing, chinese genocide narrative is braindead bullshit
Americans justifying their atrocities 👆
And the Europeans attempting to pretend they didnt in the very recent past, also. Except germany, they have actually acknowledged it.
