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There are pro independence, pro union and pro status quo people in Taiwan. People are mostly pro status quo as they don’t want a war nor want to be part of chin

by arroz 5y ago

There are pro independence, pro union and pro status quo people in Taiwan. People are mostly pro status quo as they don’t want a war nor want to be part of china. The current government is sort of pro independence, the president once said “we don’t need to declare independence, we are already independent”, which I guess is the furthest you can go before having a war there. The KMT party if I recall correctly is not necessarily pro China but pro unification. But of course unification with China would not really be unification but annexation and assimilation by a stronger authoritarian power (which can be done peacefully but yeah, no thanks)

mytailorisrich 5y ago
Re-unification would not be annexation or assimilation, Taiwan is not a foreign country unrelated to China. Taiwan vs. mainland is technically like North vs. South Korea or East vs. West Germany. Taiwan is a recognised Chinese territory. It so happened that there was a civil war in China and that the communists overthrew the government (which was already authoritarian and controlled by the KMT), which withdrew to the last province not under communist control: Taiwan. For various reasons the communists never pursued them so the ROC remained in Taiwan while the communists founded the PRC on the mainland. That's why the KMT is officially also pro-unification, in fact the ROC itself is of course formally pro-unification since its formal policy is that they do not recognise the PRC and claim the whole of China (including the South China Sea) as rightful ROC territory. At first they thought they might come back or that the communists regime would collapse, but, well, they're still waiting... In practice that means that peaceful re-unification is not realistic, IMO, for as long as the communists rule the mainland. "part of China" is always an ambiguous term because it means different things to different people. For instance, 'China' does not necessarily mean PRC.

by arroz 5y ago

mytailorisrich 5y ago

Re-unification would not be annexation or assimilation, Taiwan is not a foreign country unrelated to China. Taiwan vs. mainland is technically like North vs. South Korea or East vs. West Germany. Taiwan is a recognised Chinese territory. It so happened that there was a civil war in China and that the communists overthrew the government (which was already authoritarian and controlled by the KMT), which withdrew to the last province not under communist control: Taiwan. For various reasons the communists never pursued them so the ROC remained in Taiwan while the communists founded the PRC on the mainland. That's why the KMT is officially also pro-unification, in fact the ROC itself is of course formally pro-unification since its formal policy is that they do not recognise the PRC and claim the whole of China (including the South China Sea) as rightful ROC territory. At first they thought they might come back or that the communists regime would collapse, but, well, they're still waiting... In practice that means that peaceful re-unification is not realistic, IMO, for as long as the communists rule the mainland. "part of China" is always an ambiguous term because it means different things to different people. For instance, 'China' does not necessarily mean PRC.