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hmmm....not sure I agree here. Tsai is not entirely a creature of the US, and has indirectly - perhaps initially, inadvertently - manipulated the US by pushing
by hunglee2 4y ago
hmmm....not sure I agree here.
Tsai is not entirely a creature of the US, and has indirectly - perhaps initially, inadvertently - manipulated the US by pushing for an unendorsed independence, forcing the US to deal with a situation they hadn't before considered - a 'two china' outcome.
However, now that US does sees this outcome, it cannot unsee it and is thus driving hard to secure that outcome, no doubt as a stepping stone for the long term goal of regime change in PRC
As for Chang, I think status quo is his ideal outcome - de facto independence, TSMC servicing two of the biggest economies in the world, and therefore, the entire world. Not happening now though, sadly
- kragen 4y agoHmm, interesting. I'll have to think about that.
- rnk 4y agoThat was an interesting idea about TSMC's influence. But the fact that there should be two separate Chinas has only become more clear each year to me, with Taiwan's increasingly democratic and successful democracy (and China's every more authoritarian and dangerous behavior). I've thought that for 30 years should be the policy, and I'm just an average US person.
- kragen 4y agoApparently you don't know what the ROC is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33256578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33256578 so maybe your opinion on this topic shouldn't count; you're just repeating things you've heard that you don't understand.
- rnk 4y agoThe pointless nuanced arguments about Taiwan claiming to still be the real China and mainland China also claiming the same and the US saying officially we see there will be one China seem pointless to me - I'm sure some people care. The reality of the ground and the likely future attack from China to Taiwan is what I care more about. Please don't tell me what to do.
- kragen 4y agoI didn't tell you what to do, I just dismissed your opinions as amazingly uninformed. Whether you want to keep spouting amazingly uninformed opinions is up to you.