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Assuming "why does the Chinese government hate a free Taiwan?" is a real question, because Taiwan is where the survivors of the Chinese Nationalist government w
by pixodaros 4y ago
Assuming "why does the Chinese government hate a free Taiwan?" is a real question, because Taiwan is where the survivors of the Chinese Nationalist government went after they lost the civil war with the Communists (and Communists and Nationalists kept kidnapping and murdering each other after that date), and because Chinese Communist Party ideology emphasizes unifying all Chinese.
See also the CCP's crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong. Hong Kong was another place where Chinese people lived with independent courts, a free press, and multiple parties and the CCP was not satisfied.
- jhvkjhk 4y ago> Chinese Communist Party ideology emphasizes unifying all Chinese. Interestingly, CCP wanted to help Taiwan, Mongolia, Korea and many other provinces to independent. It is KMT (nationalist government) who advocate unifying all Chinese. I guess the nationalist government won the propaganda war, now CCP go KMT's way.
- pixodaros 4y agoPretty sure that the CCP policy that there is one China including Taiwan goes back to the 1950s. Its ugly and complicated history but Taiwanese people today can look at what is happening to the Uighurs and see very good reasons not to be conquered by China.
- jhvkjhk 4y agoI'm talking about CCP in 1936, when they were still guerrilla.
- pixodaros 4y agoFair enough! The history between the KMT and the CCP in the 1940s and 1950s was really ugly and complicated, but it has lead to this situation where Beijing may try to conquer Taipei and hundreds of millions of people may suffer.