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Taiwan is firmly part of the US empire. Just because someone done something in the past, doesn't make it right necessarily for everyone to do in the future. I

• Apocryphon 6y ago
  > Just because someone done something in the past, doesn't make it right necessarily for everyone to do in the future. I did not say it was right at all. You are the one making moral judgments here. I'm simply stating historical facts. Notice I did not at any time make the claim that just "because everyone does it" makes it excusable or right. But it does make it understandable, as an institutionalized practice or character trait of empires. > If the the US was not getting economic and political projection in Taiwan, they would dump them in a second and/or create a lot of trouble for them. You are introducing non sequiturs at this point. At no point did I support nor reject empire. Furthermore, Taiwan, like other U.S. allies or client states, has its own vested interests in being part of an alliance, because they (ostensibly) receive protection. You are denying that Taiwan has agency in seeking out advantageous (in its view) alliances. That is very condescending, and frankly, chauvinist.