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China is of no interests to Taiwan in normal times. The hostile rhetoric towards Taiwan is a CCP relic, it is Mao's legacy to close off civil war, not anything
by tanilama 6y ago
China is of no interests to Taiwan in normal times.
The hostile rhetoric towards Taiwan is a CCP relic, it is Mao's legacy to close off civil war, not anything else.
It is like Abortion to GOP, which is all about identity, other than actual purpose of pursuing such ideal.
If occupying Taiwan is worthy of losing global trade and business and tens of millions of Chinese' livelihood, CCP would already act on it. The only reason it hasn't done anything is because it doesn't want/care to.
It is probably true that both China/Taiwan to stay in the status quo, with ever so often mainly symbolic bickering.
- fermienrico 6y agoSymbolic bickering? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/world/asia/taiwan-arms-sales.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/world/asia/taiwan-arms-sa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_arms_sales_to_Taiwan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_arms_sales_to_Taiwa... I don't know, I guess the entire field of diplomacy and international relations can be characterized as "symbolic bickering" - as opposed to "non-symbolic bickering" - which would involve dropping bombs over the other party's territory.
- tanilama 6y agoI don't think those arms sales are even remotely relevant. Under what timeline a regime won't need to arm itself? Even China and Russia are armed near the border, or China/North Korea.