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The day this is even seriously proposed, China invades Taiwan. And anyway, the vast majority of Americans wouldn't see and attack of a Taiwanese US state as a
by snskzbs 5y ago
The day this is even seriously proposed, China invades Taiwan.
And anyway, the vast majority of Americans wouldn't see and attack of a Taiwanese US state as a Pearl Harbor because its non sensical. Taiwan has 100 million people. Theres no way that population transfers to create the bonds necessary to make Taiwan “American” could occur. Hawaii had been a US colony for 50 years and mainland Americans had moved in displacing the natives. What is nationhood for you? How is Taiwan in any way American? They have little in common with us, yet you would make them the largest US state?
Taiwan is Chinese. Their family bonds are deep, and they share a common language and culture. The ancestor shrines for most Taiwanese (being refugees from the mainland) are in China.
Itd be much better to recognize Taipei as China and Beijing as a de-facto, yet criminal, ruler like we did before Nixon.
Either way, Taipei is perfectly capable of defending itself. Allied with Korea and a re-militarized Japan, they’d be the most fearsome military power in the world.
- GoOnThenDoTell 5y ago23 million people (rather than 100)
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoConsider the history of chinese civil war, and that Nationalists which founded Taiwan were flirting with Nazism and have comitted mass murder and near-wipeout communists, which were predesessors of today's Beijing government. So there is loads of bad blood and pergaps easiest thing to happen is gor generations to change under status quo and for memory of these atrocities to fade into the background.
- philliphaydon 5y ago> Taiwan is Chinese. Their family bonds are deep, and they share a common language and culture. The ancestor shrines for most Taiwanese (being refugees from the mainland) are in China. Taiwan and Taiwanese people don’t feel this way at all.
- mr_toad 5y agoFrom what I’ve read, some of them do and some don’t. Some Taiwanese still claim to be the legitimate Chinese government (in exile). Others would rather remain independent.
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- danbolt 5y agoMy guess is that as time goes on Taiwan will see itself more and more as Taiwanese than Chinese. Much in the same way that many French-speaking Canadians do not see themselves as necessarily French.
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