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If it was true that "most people, including the Tawainese themselves, agree is a part of China", then mainland China would/should have no problem whatsoever wit
by mafribe 9y ago
If it was true that "most people, including the Tawainese themselves, agree is a part of
China", then mainland China would/should have no problem whatsoever
with a binding Taiwanese independence referendum.
It is precisely because mainland China knows very well that the
majority of Taiwanese want independence, that the mainland objects to
free and fair independence referendum. The mainland assumes they would
loose.
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The secession of US states is clarified in the US constitution
[1], and
the US Supreme Court, in Texas v. White [2], ruled unilateral secession unconstitutional, while commenting that revolution or consent of the States could lead to a successful secession. Note that Texas v. White happened over a century ago.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_States
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White
- dis-sys 9y agoindependence referendum? such as the recent Catalan independence referendum in Spain? Why EU/US both rejected its outcome when the people of Catalan clearly made the case with a successful & peaceful independence referendum?
- mafribe 9y agoThat referendum is an interesting edge case, as I wrote in my post above. Spain could have handled the Catalan issue much better, that is certainly true. One crucial difference is that neither the EU nor the Spanish government threaten violence and military invasion. This contrasts very favourably with Xi Jinping and his cronys incessant bullying of Taiwan.