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Hong Kong demands Taiwan officials sign 'one China' document for visa renewal
- bitxbitxbitcoin 6y ago> The source declined to say exactly how many Taiwan officials were asked to sign the paper but said its acting chief, Kao Ming-tsun, had returned to the island late on Thursday after he refused to sign the document upon his visa renewal. Good on Kao.
- stevespang 6y agoTiawan should reciprocate with the reverse, no visas to CCP or citizens of China unless this douchebaggery is quashed. Also, all Chinese should be immediately banned from receiving any chips from TSMC. Cut them off at the knees.
- olliej 6y agoSeriously china’s obsession with Taiwan is absurd, they’re a separate country, get the fuck over it.
- caiobegotti 6y agoDictatorships never accept getting over anything.
- simonblack 6y agoIt's a pity somebody like you didn't get to say that to the Union about the Confederacy before the Civil War kicked off.
- olliej 6y agoThe confederacy declared independence after slavers lost the election, and then started war with the USA. Additionally Taiwan declared independence following a revolution that completely changed the existing country governance.
- mint2 6y agoThat analogy doesn’t work. Is Taiwan separate because it wants to keep abusing human rights and China wants to end those abuses? No, the answer is no. If anything, your comment would only make sense if the confederates had won and instituted slavery everywhere in America, and taiwan was a small union hold out. As it stands your comment sounds revisionist and dismissive of what the civil war was about.
- boznz 6y agoMaybe Taiwan should make chinese sign a seperate country document for visa renewals.
- DeonPenny 6y agoThere is a reason why these types of governments overtime descend into chaos. It's not the exception it is the rules. The western world is just getting a refresher course on what that looks like.
- mvid 6y agoIn general, yes. But we haven’t before seen what happens when that government has total data and communication control on every individual citizen.
- DeonPenny 6y agoYeh and what the soviets did was different than the Venezuelans. But I typically think life in canonical. We live the same lives with a small tweak to a variable. I dont think this will last in that government is people and people are flawed.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y agoThe one-China policy is explicitly designed to be ambiguous about who controls this China, which lets the PRC pretend they control Taiwan and Taiwan pretend they control the mainland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy So on the face of it, being asked to agree to this should not be objectionable to a Taiwanese official. Is the content of the doc they're being asked to sign available anywhere? Because it sounds like the devil is in the details here.
- toast0 6y agoI only know about the One China policy from Wikipedia, but it seems like there's disagreement among the political parties of Taiwan about if they want to keep it. If I was an official, I wouldn't want to have signed a declaration that agrees to China's position unless it matched the official position of Taiwan.
- lumost 6y agoForeign policy is weird, countries don't give up on even trivial disputes without some concessions. Even seemingly trivial matters can be used for later negotiations. See the current list of US/Canada territorial disputes for an example notably Machias island. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Canada_and_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Cana...
- perilunar 6y agoI would have thought the visa itself is de facto recognition that they are separate countries.
- imnothere__ 6y agoTo be honest, dumbass Chinese/NMSLese can just go f* themselves, and to everyone who still stands with mainland China, I hope you get corona virus from Winnie the Pooh