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They hold that official position because China demands they do to maintain relations. The US and most other western countries don't actually believe that.
by postingawayonhn 4y ago
They hold that official position because China demands they do to maintain relations. The US and most other western countries don't actually believe that.
- yogthos 4y agoUS has no business interfering in Taiwan. Period.
- postingawayonhn 4y agoThe free people of the world have a right to protect themselves from authoritarians and to assist other free people in doing so. That seems like a pretty fundamental moral principle to follow.
- yogthos 4y agoBeing a vassal of the US is not freedom. Also, every instance of US "assisting" a country has resulted in creating hellish conditions for people of that country. Stop helping.
- postingawayonhn 4y agoWestern Europe, Taiwan, and South Korea and now all wealthy democracies thanks in a large part to US assistance. It hasn't been successful every time the US has gone to a country's aid, but some countries just can't be helped.
- yogthos 4y agoLMAO this same South Korea? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/young-south-koreans-call-their-country-hell-and-look-for-ways-out/2016/01/30/34737c06-b967-11e5-85cd-5ad59bc19432_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/young-sout...
- NonEUCitizen 4y agoThe US supported the dictators Chiang Kai-Shek and Chiang Ching-Kuo when they were oppressing the people of Taiwan. US also supported dictators in South Korea and the Philippines, as well as in Latin America.
- postingawayonhn 4y agoFrom the end of WW2 to the end of the Cold War the US foreign policy was primarily focused on stopping communism. In some cases they supported dictatorial governments because the alternative at the time (at least in their eyes) would have been worse.
- yogthos 4y agoYeah, weird how US always sided with the brutal dictators while USSR sided with the masses of the people in the countries. It's just so hard to say which was on the right side of history.
- HDThoreaun 4y agoSo? Are you claiming that means the US can't help the Taiwanese in their goal of self determination?
- yogthos 4y agoOne has to be incredibly naive to believe that US is constantly at war killing countless millions of people to protect freedoms. US is an empire that subjugates countries to its will to extract their labour and resources. Here's what US protecting freedoms looks like in practice https://ia800309.us.archive.org/26/items/fp_Killing_Hope-US_Military_and_CIA_Interventions_Since_WWII-William_Blum/Killing_Hope-US_Military_and_CIA_Interventions_Since_WWII-William_Blum.pdf https://ia800309.us.archive.org/26/items/fp_Killing_Hope-US_... https://bylinetimes.com/2021/09/15/up-to-six-million-people-the-unrecorded-fatalities-of-the-war-on-terror/ https://bylinetimes.com/2021/09/15/up-to-six-million-people-...
- jonnycomputer 4y agoWho does, besides the Taiwanese?
- yogthos 4y agoI'll try explaining this in more familiar terms for you. A province is like a state in US, and the central government of China is akin to the federal government in US. I hope that helps clear things up for you.
- jonnycomputer 4y agoAh. So you are saying that mainland China should be governed by the exiled government in Tapei. Got it.
- yogthos 4y agoNo, I'm not saying that because that would make me an imbecile.