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as it should. Taiwan should become part of NATO asap just like Finland and Sweden are trying to do.
by option 4y ago
as it should. Taiwan should become part of NATO asap just like Finland and Sweden are trying to do.
- neysofu 4y agoNo NATO member even recognizes Taiwan as a sovereign country, going from that to NATO membership seems... quite the leap.
- option 4y agoit is a sovereign country de-facto, the West should stop being bullied by China.
- dontlaugh 4y agoTaiwan doesn’t even see itself as a independent, the government there still claims all of (Qing) China.
- throwaway_4ever 4y agoRoC only claims that because any deviation from their existing policy is "declaring independence" and what China wants as an excuse to invade and kill millions of people.
- School-Cotton 4y agoNo they don’t. They have a totally obsolete, totally ignored (by the government and everybody else) article in their constitution claiming China, which they can’t remove because the actual China has threatened to immediately invade them if they do.
- himinlomax 4y agoThat's only true if you take at face value an official lie that absolutely EVERYONE understands to be a lie, as well as understands that everyone else knows it's a lie. That's like saying North Korea is a democracy because everyone calls it the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
- thriftwy 4y agoNorth Korea is only Democratic because Stalin hated the idea of them being called PRK, which would resolve to the same cyrillic TLA as PRC.
- Green_man 4y agoTerritorial disputes are a problem for NATO membership, especially wrt article 5. Even if Taiwan gave up any claims to the Chinese mainland or other disputed territories, China's claims of sovereignty of the island could justifiably be enough to deny membership. On top of that, NATO is explicitly a European organization, with no member countries outside the European area besides USA and Canada. https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_24733.htm https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_24733.htm